Archive - MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

All the Time I Need? Finishing a Book on Schedule

How to Write an Entire Book Using This One Weird Trick! Plus, an Update on My Latest Project

Oct 12 •

‘A Chance to Heal and Develop Our Nation’s Soul’

Claude Atcho on What Black Literature Means for All Americans

Oct 9 •

Open Thread: The Most American Character in Fiction?

Give Me Your Suggestions for Characters Who Best Exemplify American Traits

Oct 7 •

First Draft, Last Draft: How Hemingway Became Hemingway

Reviewing the Celebrated Novelist’s Classic Memoir, ‘A Moveable Feast’

Oct 5 •

Consuming the News, a.k.a. Guzzling the Limbic Cocktail

What if You Could Simply Ignore the Never-ending News Cycle?

Oct 2 •

September 2024

Bookish Diversions: Type-Oh, Dang It!

Typos in James Joyce, the Bible, and Recent Books; Interpretive Liberties; More

Sep 28 •

Of Course It Still Matters! Why Study Literature Today

Henry Oliver on a Singular Way of Seeing the World, His Top-5 Novelists, Shakespeare, Late-Bloomers, More

Sep 25 •

Blind Bard? What History Tells Us about ‘Homer and His Iliad’

Homer Was as Fictional as His Tale of the Trojan War, Right? Robin Lane Fox Says No

Sep 21 •

Open Thread: Favorite Children’s Book?

I Read Most Nights to My Daughter. Help Us Build Our TBR!

Sep 20 •

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us about Innovation

We’ve got Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jennifer Doudna. Who needs Aristotle? Reviewing ‘How to Innovate,’ translated by Armand D’Angour

Sep 18 •

Fab Chore: Writing about the Beatles and Other Music Greats

U2, Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash, Van Morrison, More: How Biographer and Music Journalist Steve Turner Stays So Productive

Sep 14 •

Eaten by a Secret: Reckoning after the Cataclysm

Mugo Has a Secret. So Does Mumbi. Hers Is Harder to Hide. Reviewing ‘A Grain of Wheat’ by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Sep 11 •

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