In this excellent new book on the eye, Clyde Oyster manages to preserve the sense of awe experienced by our Victorian predecessors, while at the same time providing a solid treatise on eye anatomy ...

is the central theme of the book. Cora Almeida is put aboard by her husband to seduce Julian away from his loyalty to the Concession. The temptation is painful; in bracing contrast to most fiction ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...