One Eternal Day

Last year I posted about two books I wanted to read that were to be published in 2026. One of them, Michael Dirda's  The Great Age of St...

Those who follow this blog know that one of my favorite authors is John Buchan  (1875-1940). I have posted about him, his thrillers, and oth...

Although published more than three years ago, I only came across it yesterday while searching for something else. Buchan is one of my favori...

Dirda has reappeared at The Washington Post with "What are the best adventure novels?" including a list of books that he would c...

There are a couple of books I am eagerly anticipating, although publication dates are uncertain. One is Alan Jacobs' biography of Doroth...

Every January 1 st more works go out of copyright and enter the public domain. This year, in the United States, the songs, books, and films...

About John Buchan's first thriller and its subsequent influences: A century after publication, John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps rem...

Dirda again, this from a 2012 essay titled "Armchair Adventures" : Why is it that I so seldom want to read what everyone else want...

I am re-reading one of my favorite John Buchan adventures. Huntingtower is the first of three novels about the adventures of Dickson McCunn...

I posted about  Standard Ebooks  on Facebook recently. I am really enjoying the site. It describes itself this way: Standard Ebooks is a vol...

In “'Realism coloured by poetry': rereading John Buchan," Roger Kimball considers, among much else, whether John Buchan was an...

I have expressed my enthusiasm for John Buchan's thrillers before . This is about one of them : First published in 1924, The Three Hosta...

John Buchan on Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), "the greatest public figure of that time": His character will be a puzzle to future h...

I've been enjoying these commentaries on the Hannay books by John Buchan — and especially having come to the one about Mr. Standfast , ...

John  Buchan on his thrillers : ...I had become a copious romancer. I suppose I was a natural story-teller, the kind of man who for the sake...

I'm finding John Buchan's memoir both interesting and relevant. Here he describes the attitudes of many after World War I . It seeme...

John Buchan , a Scot,  remembers his father : So among these chapters it may be permitted to allot one to the pictures which, as we grow old...

John Buchan, then Governor-General of Canada, on American democracy : .... It has two main characteristics. The first is that the ordinary m...

I think it was one of my high school English teachers who suggested that I might enjoy John Buchan's thrillers. I'm sure the first I...

Michael Dirda, one of my favorite book reviewers, has returned after a lengthy "spring break" during which he was not exactly rela...