Reading Around Archives

Every year it’s something with the hose. There was the year we started to unravel it in early spring, and found a nest of impossibly [...]

June 4, 2017

What the hell was my husband doing in Maui? Fourth grade teacher Jacqueline ‘Jacks’ Morales is one day blindsided by a knock on the [...]

June 1, 2017

These fossils do not invite interest. They invite passionate commitment, they invite religious fervor and scientific speculation, they [...]

May 31, 2017

Memorial Day officially kicks off the summer and with it, the mandatory expeditions in search of sun, sand, and surf. Along with the [...]

May 27, 2017

I felt no big-brotherly protectiveness coming from this watcher, only an intense, almost affronted curiosity. Whatever was looking down [...]

May 23, 2017

Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women. The very first page of Into the Water by Paula [...]

May 10, 2017

It was a big freaking spider. These are the very first words of Skitter by Ezekiel Boone, which continues where last year’s The Hatching [...]

May 9, 2017

This book by the noted Egyptologist Dr. Wafaa El-Saddik, Protecting Pharaoh’s Treasures, published by The American University in Cairo [...]

April 24, 2017