Kalahari Desert © Hentie Burger It took me a long time to finish the remarkable Mating by Norman Rush, and even longer to stop wishing ...

"Princeton, New Jersey, 1960s" [ via ] I've been anxious to read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah since I heard...

Images via treesandempathy (photo credit unknown; painting is "Odette" by Ryan Pickart) At the moment, I'm findin...

image  via     Last week I finally got around to reading  July's People by world-treasure Nadine Gordimer . I loved this bit, where...

[image via New York magazine] "It turns out that Clive's book smells like literature and looks like literature and maybe eve...

Photo credit:  Petra Collins,  Rookie I recently finished Megan Abbott's "sexy and sinister" (apt adjectives courtesy of ...

I'm reading Broken Harbour by Tana French , and last night I came across a passage that cast sea smells in a new light: The smell of...

As I may have mentioned twelve or a hundred times, the sweet spot where smells & stories meet is where this website wants to live. So I ...

Ratty & Mole illustration by EH Shepard My main Mole (he says he's more a Ratty) is rereading The Wind in the Willows , and he...