In 1944, at the age of 13, Brooke Randel’s grandmother Golda Indig was with her older sister in the German death camp of Auschwitz. They had been separated from the [...]
Seventeen questions about hate by Patrick T. Reardon If I believe that Donald Trump is bad for the United States and the rest of the world because [...]
One-Cent wonders By Patrick T. Reardon The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. [...]
John, the friend who recommended Peter Sarris’s 2023 Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint, had one caveat about the book’s subtitle: “He was no saint.” It’s funny how a comment like that [...]
Generally, I don’t read introductions before starting a novel. I want to experience the book fresh on its own terms and on my own terms. I don’t want some other [...]
The American nuclear-powered submarine USS Dolphin and her crew have an awful lot of bad luck on a trip under the ice cap to save the survivors of a devastating [...]
In the profane manner of professional athletes, Bobby Hunter had this summary of Abe Saperstein, the founder of the Harlem Globetrotters and, for more than three decades, the team’s owner [...]
In mid-century America, it was easy enough to find out what the nation stood for — just go to a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and [...]
He left Patrick T. Reardon Old enough to know, Denmark Jones knew his father did not fight battles outside the house. He thought to be a cook, a singer, [...]
Here’s a thought: Somewhere in the American Southwest — the exact location is a highly guarded secret — is a Great Basin bristlecone that botanists and foresters estimate to be [...]
