Tarnished City – There Are No Hogwarts Here When right and wrong were so tangled up, how could you ever pull them apart? Last year Vic James dazzled readers worldwide with her debut [...] February 11, 2018
Alafair Burke Asks How Loyal Should The Wife Be? Alafair Burke’s new novel, The Wife, has so many twists and turns it’s like trying to keep track of a runaway train. The story starts [...] February 10, 2018
Jane on the Brain: Science of Social Intelligence Meets Jane Austen The thought of Darcy and Elizabeth as walking computers, calculating the sum of neural activity, is likely to irritate many Austen [...] February 6, 2018
Poet’s Corner – No One’s Asking You No one’s asking you To change your mind. Or find A new way to breathe; To exhale the bitter, The madness or goodness. We are only human. [...] February 4, 2018
Five Great Reads For the Cold Weather Ah winter. Time for hot chocolate, weather advisory alerts, and staying indoors. And when you’re stuck inside the only things [...] January 21, 2018
P.D. James Farewell – A Terrific Collection of Short Stories To fans who have enjoyed – no, loved – P.D. James’ novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard investigator who also [...] January 20, 2018
The Last Neanderthal – Fresh Insight into a Lost Race They didn’t think as much about what was different. Homo Neanderthalis. A race of archaic humans who roamed the earth for 200,000 years [...] January 8, 2018
Neil Simon’s Memoirs: Rewrites and The Play Goes On If you’re unfamiliar with the name Neil Simon, it seems clear you’ve regularly attended neither theater nor film, have an aversion to [...] January 6, 2018