One of the most delightful books I read this past year was “The Library at Night,” a series of essays on the “idea” of the library through time and place, from ancient Alexandria to the Web, with ...

or those of us who are serious about books and literature, reading amounts to an almost sacred act. Many famous authors have extolled the pleasures of the printed page, of course, but to my mind none ...

Writer and critic Manguel's (Reading Pictures) elegantly elliptical and wryly contemporary diary of cities revisited and books reread during 2002 and 2003 opens with a journey he undertakes to his ...

Books about books don’t sell well. They’re rarely displayed on the tables at the front of a Borders or Barnes and Noble store. Instead, they’re relegated to a couple of shelves following Z in the ...

It's a great idea: a survey history of how Homer has been read throughout history, taking in Roman Homer, Christian Homer, Alexander Pope's Homer and Homer in Islam, among others. And Manguel (A ...

Alberto Manguel has long since taken the title -- once held by Jorge Luis Borges-- of the bookworm’s bookworm. He is the voice of the species, or the closest thing we have to a celebrity at any rate.