REVIEWS - BOOKS & ARTICLES
Hermits - Hermit Huts - Solitude - Simplicity

BOOK REVIEWS: HERMITS

Belisle, Peter-Damian. The Language of Silence: the Changing Face of Monastic Solitude.
Brown, Kendall H. The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan.
Clay, Rotha Mary. The Hermits and Anchorites of England.
Colegate, Isabel. A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits and Solitaries.
Crook, John and James Low. The Yogins of Ladakh: A Pilgrimage Among the Hermits of the Buddhist Himalayas.
Darwin, Francis D.S. The English Mediaeval Recluse.
France, Peter. Hermits: The Insights of Solitude.
Giannone, Richard. Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist.
Hartsuiker Dorf. Sadhus: India's Mystic Holy Men.
Keemattam, Augusthy. The Hermits of Rishikesh: a Sociological Study.
Jotischkey, Andrew. The Perfection of Solitude: Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States.
Mackenzie, Vicki. Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment.
Maguire, Nancy Klein. An Infinity of Little Hours.
Marra, Michele. The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature.
Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe.
Nikodim of Belgorod, Bishop. Maria of Olonets: Desert Dweller of the Northern Forests.
Peskov, Vassily. Lost in the Taiga. Translated by Marian Schwartz.
Porter, Bill. Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.
Swan, Laura. The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women.
Ward, Benedicta. Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources.
Warren, Ann K. Anchorites and Their Patrons in Medieval England.
Weaver, Charles P. The Hermit in English Literature from the Beginnings to 1660.
Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem.


ARTICLE REVIEWS: HERMITS

Brown, Peter: "The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity."
Conley, John J.: "The Eremitical Anthropology of William of St. Thierry."
Hourani, Guita G. & Antoine B. Habachi: "The Maronite Eremitical Tradition: a Contemporary Revival."

BOOK REVIEWS: HERMIT HUTS

HERMIT'S HUT: CLASSIC ASIAN TEXTS
Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life.

HERMIT'S HUT, HERMIT'S DREAM: THREE BOOKS
Pollan, Michael. A Place of One's Own: the Education of an Amateur Builder.
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Natural House.

THE IDEA OF THE HUT: THREE BOOKS
Rykwert, Joseph. On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History.
Cline, Ann. A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture.
Sharr, Adam. Heidegger's Hut.

BOOK REVIEWS: SOLITUDE

Balcom, David. The Greatest Escape: Adventures in the History of Solitude.
Barbour, John D. The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography.
Doherty, Catherine. Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man.
Flood, Gavin. The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition.
Greene, Alice Bouchard. The Philosophy of Silence.
Housden, Roger. Retreat: Time Apart for SIlence and Solitude.
Koch, Philip. Solitude: a Philosophical Encounter.
Lane, Belden C. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality.
Picard, Max. World of Silence.
Powys, John Cowper. A Philosophy of Solitude.
Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality. Chapter 2: Solitude.
Storr, Anthony. Solitude: A Return to the Self.

BUDDHISM, SELF, & SOLITUDE: THREE BOOKS
Batchelor, Stephen. Alone With Others, Buddhism Without Beliefs, Living With the Devil.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOLITUDE: TWO BOOKS
Buchholz, Esther Schaler. The Call of Solitude: Alonetime in a World of Attachment.
Halpern, Sue. Migrations to Solitude.

WOMEN IN SEARCH OF SOLITUDE: EIGHT BOOKS
Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude.
Grumbach, Doris. Fifty Days of Solitude.
Shulman, Alix Kates. Drinking the Rain.
Mills, Stephanie. Epicurean Simplicity.
Scot, Barbara J. The Stations of Still Creek.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Karper, Karen. Where God Begins to Be: A Woman's Journey into Solitude.
Dobisz, Jane. The Wisdom of Solitude: A Zen Retreat in the Woods.

MEN IN SEARCH OF SOLITUDE: FOUR BOOKS
Kerouac, Jack. Desolation Angels
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.
Katz, Jon. Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith and Change.
Mahler, Richard. Stillness: Daily Gifts of Solitude.
Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild.

BOOK REVIEWS: SIMPLICITY

Segal, Jerome M. Graceful Simplicity: Towards a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living.

ECONOMICS OF SIMPLICITY: TWO BOOKS
Ritzer, George. Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption.
Schumacher, E. F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered.

VERSIONS OF SIMPLICITY: THREE BOOKS
Dominguez, Joe and Vicki Robin. Your Money or Your Life.
Huston, Paul. The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life.
Smith, Robert Lawrence. A Quaker Book of Wisdom.