“BANZAI NIPPON,” which, being translated, means, it appears, ten thousand hurrahs for Japan, is the first phrase and the last of Dr. Seaman's book, and properly so, for the burden of the story ...

NEW CHUM — John Masefield — Moc-millan ($2.50). In the autumn of 1886 an excited, nervous boy of 13 (who had every inten tion of becoming a first mate and no thought whatever of becoming a ...

Seaman is asked if she was planning to pay for that. She sweats, then blurts earnestly: “Who is the Idiot?” “River of Books: A Life in Reading” is not about a life of crime and misrule.

Mumbai: The Sahar police have detained 29-year-old Suhail Ahmad for allegedly attempting to travel to Cairo, Egypt, using ...

These two qualities are abundantly evident in the life and work of renowned Chicago literary critic Donna Seaman. In her new memoir, “River of Books,” she tells her history with books and ...

There’s a slyly damning scene in Donna Seaman’s new memoir about her talent/habit/mandate for reading all the time— just reading and reading and reading, nonstop, from her childhood in the ...