Patrick Reardon

Mostly Harmless — the 5th and sort-of final installment in the series of books by Douglas Adams that he started with A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — is mostly [...]

Emma, this book review is for you, but don’t tell your Mom and Dad.  They’d probably get all worried that a book like P is for Pterodactyl will ruin your [...]

The odds are that you don’t have a copy of the Jewish War by Josephus in your book collection. You may never have heard of it.  It was written around [...]

  Sonja Livingston’s mother led an irregular life, giving birth to seven children, often without a husband, but she still attended Corpus Christi Catholic Church with her kids, striding up [...]

In 1962, John Steinbeck was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the committee that chose him described his novel The Grapes of Wrath as “a great work” [...]

I know the title of Edward L. Greenstein’s Job, just published by Yale University Press, indicates that it’s a new translation of the biblical book composed about 2,600 years ago. [...]