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 [...]