Book review: “Soul Music” by Terry Pratchett
There is a temptation to start off this review with a pun, but no dice. I know that I’m nowhere near as good at it as Terry Pratchett, as he [...]
There is a temptation to start off this review with a pun, but no dice. I know that I’m nowhere near as good at it as Terry Pratchett, as he [...]
When Bill Sikes is introduced in Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens describes him thusly: “The man who growled out these words, was a stoutly-built fellow of about five-and-thirty, in a black [...]
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m feeling sort of left out. This past weekend, President Donald Trump tweeted about how much he dislikes singer and activist John Legend [...]
Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, published in Italian in 1975, is a literary memoir of high art and broad ambition. It covers the waterfront. The periodic table, of course, is [...]
On the occasion of this 126th Labor Day as a national holiday, I’d like to make a modest proposal: Let’s have a second one — Labor Day 2 — that’s [...]
Visions By Patrick T. Reardon I see the hand of God write on the wall the sins of the king. I see the bloody knife. I see the father lead [...]
Near the very end of Julia Keller’s latest Acker’s Gap novel The Cold Way Home (Minotaur, 306 pages, $27.99), Jake Oakes wants something that he knows he may never get, [...]
Granny Weatherwax hears a noise outside her witch’s cottage: There was something in the garden.It wasn’t much of a garden. There were the Herbs, and the soft fruit bushes, a [...]