The Eclectic Reader

A really talented writer can pack an entire world into a very few pages.  This is exactly what the gifted Ian McEwan has done in his shor...

I wanted to like this novel a lot more than I did.  It was written by A.N. Wilson who is a very good writer and it was about the Christ...

I greatly enjoyed this collection of short stories by the mysterious B. Traven. All of the stories in this collection are set in M...

Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, is Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece.  The novel is about the life of Janie Crawf...

Ian McEwan's new novel, The Children Act , is about three of my favorite subjects: law, sex and religion. Fiona May is a fifty nin...

I enjoyed A.N. Wilson's 2007 novel Winnie and Wolf a great deal.  If you like this book you probably have two characteristics: (1) Y...

Perry Lentz (b. 1943) is a retired Professor of English at Kenyon College.  In 1967 at age 24 he published The Falling Hills   a novel...