Poet’s Corner: Baby Doll Although the Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994 and reauthorized in 2000 and 2005, the act’s 2012 renewal was opposed by [...] November 5, 2019
John Grisham’s The Guardians Touches a Nerve According to the Innocence Project’s estimates, between 2.3 percent and 5 percent of all U.S. prisoners are innocent. Considering that [...] October 27, 2019
Two New Mysteries Focus on Family Relationships Families can be complicated and in the hands of a skilled mystery writer, untangling those bonds can make for a fantastic read. Two that [...] October 23, 2019
Poet’s Corner: First Thousand Days A thousand days as President;A thousand days in power.A thousand days of sorrow;A thousand troubles, by the hour.A thousand dreams are lost [...] October 22, 2019
Nicholas Meyer Continues Sherlock Holmes’ Adventures With conspiracy theories so much in the news these days, Nicholas Meyer’s new Sherlock Holmes’ mystery is particularly well timed. This [...] October 15, 2019
Neil deGrasse Tyson in Conversation with Robert Krulwich: Letters from an Astrophysicist Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, author, host of Cosmos and StarTalk, has spent his career exploring [...] October 13, 2019
Poet’s Corner: Shift If you hold a sparrowin the cup of your hand,a found one, stunnedby the smash of glassthat was window not sky,forever after, when you see [...] October 13, 2019
Behind the Scenes in Christine Coulson’s Delightful Metropolitan Stories Anyone who’s worked somewhere for a quarter of a century has stories to tell. But when that place is New York’s Metropolitan [...] October 8, 2019