Underbelly

At the end of his remarkable memoir on his time as Secretary of Defense, Bob Gates poses a question for himself: Treated better for long...

When all else fails, try the Duc de Saint-Simon.  There's nothing quite so cozy as tucking down with the Court of the Sun King.  It mig...

I'm barreling through Robert Gates'  much-hyped memoir  of his tour as secretary of defense under two Presidents and they are right...

Long day at San Francisco Airport yesterday, so a chance to do a lot of reading.  I ingested a large chunk of a really cool book about whic...

It has pleased fortune  these past few months to wake me up about two am and then leave me to languish and and beguile sleep until four, ma...

Mr. and Mrs.Buce do not often read the identical stuff but sometimes we operate in parallel.  Case in point: just now she is awash in Hilar...

And there is no educated human being less likely to know business worse placed for knowing business than a young lord. Business is really m...

  Not a long list, but  some really good stuff: Your one-stop shop for understanding tax deal . And why you might still be mad . Will Wi...

Mr Quayne falls from marital grace: At the end of the party Mr Quayne all in a daze already saw her back in a taxi to Notting Hill Gate and...

Jacket Copy , the LA Times ' book blog, offers up a list of "61 essential postmodern reads." Based on the title alone, my ...

I usually try to read up on a country before I visit there, but on Tunisia, I didn't do so well. Okay, so I was grading exams. But mor...

Two weekend must-reads: Axel Leijonhufvud's overview (excerpted here by Yves Smith) has got to be the best all-round summary of the cur...

Il Teatro Buce last night featured a showing of The Duchess of Langeais , a sort of a French Mawsterpiece Theatre costume drama drawn from a...

Some summer reading notes: I read Steven Mithen, After the Ice (2003), by mistake. Somehow I thought it was about the development of the hu...