Poet’s Corner: Tales of Winter Winter echoes and dances in playful vibrancies to chase the cold Mittens, hats, ornaments of gold Metaphorical arrangements of worn things [...] December 10, 2017
Jed Perl’s Calder: The Conquest of Time Two things immediately come to mind when someone mentions Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976): endlessly varied mobiles refreshing [...] December 5, 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale – A Dark, Adult Fairy Tale Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, the bird-prince and the wicked sorcerer-they only come for [...] November 28, 2017
Two New Mysteries Weave the Opioid Epidemic into Their Plots Current events have a way of showing up in fiction. The best writers use these themes to enhance the plot rather than detract from a good [...] November 24, 2017
Poet’s Corner: Thanksgiving Calls Over the river or through the woods Thanksgiving has arrived; Our arms full of our fresh baked goods. Dried cranberries, revived. Olives [...] November 23, 2017
The Game’s Afoot in Bonnie MacBird’s Unquiet Spirits Only a brave and talented writer would take on the daunting task of writing a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Comparisons are inevitable with the [...] October 31, 2017
Harlan Coben’s Don’t Let Go Is Hard to Put Down I’m worried about Harlan Cohen. Worried that he is working too hard. Besides turning out adult mysteries that are page turners, he also [...] October 27, 2017
Gilded Cage – Where the Magically Gifted Enslave the Rest of Us And at the end of that leash, crouched on all fours and naked, was a man. One of the most enduring conceits of fantasy and sci-fi is that [...] October 25, 2017