Anne Kraatz initially published her book Lace: History and Fashion in French in 1988 and then helped with the English version from Rizzoli the next year with a translation by [...]
“Look out! He’s got a daisy!” That’s what Moist von Lipwig shouts at one point in Terry Pratchett’s Making Money, his 36th Discworld novel, and, even as he does, Moist [...]
BettyJoyce Nash’s crackerjack novel Everybody Here Is Kin has been described as a coming-of-age tale, but that’s only half of it. It’s also a coping-with-PTSD-after-military-service story. And, really, it’s a [...]
In the seven stories in Ana Castillo’s new sparkling, gritty and compassionate collection Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home, there are a lot of common themes. Ghosts, for one, including a beautiful [...]
Over the past 76 years, the Playtex brand of bras, girdles and other women’s products hasn’t been shy when it comes to advertising its merchandise. In fact, in 1949, it [...]
Mark K. Tilsen, a poet and Native-American activist, grew up reading a copy of Voices from Wounded Knee, 1973 that “was coffee-stained and was falling apart by the time I [...]
Laura Lippman’s 2018 novel Sunburn is a mystery and a crime novel, but it’s more of a character study. The characters are Adam Bosk and Pauline Hansen, once known as [...]
Even success can be boring, it seems. That’s a good explanation for Agatha Christie’s 1942 murder mystery Five Little Pigs. At this point, in the middle of the 20th century, [...]
Michael Edwards is an English-born French poet and scholar, and he argues that it’s important to recognize that much of the Bible is written as poetry or as poetic prose, [...]
The Glorious Pool, with the salaciously seductive image of a nude woman on the cover, is a screwball comedy of a novel about a fountain — er, pool — of [...]
