Book Review : Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Thursday May 27, 2004
The characters of Tom Perrotta's latest novel, Little Children, are a surprising bunch: Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past; Richard, Sarah's husband, who ... Read More
Book Review : Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Wednesday May 26, 2004
Lynne Truss loves our culture, and she loves the English language. What she doesn't love is the disintigration of our language into the mire of illiteracy.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: ... Read More
May 25th is Towel Day
Monday May 24, 2004
In honour of Douglas Adams (March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001), May 25th is Towel Day. Please join in tribute to the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide ... Read More
A Short Story in Tattoos
Saturday May 22, 2004
Shelley Jackson's latest story, "Skin," is a short 2, 095 word piece of fiction that's going to take a long time to publish. Termed "a mortal work of art" ... Read More
Book News: Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver takes Arthur C. Clarke Award
Wednesday May 19, 2004
The Arthur C. Clarke award is awarded annually for the best science fiction novel published in Britain during the prior calendar year. It was established with a grant from ... Read More
Book Review : Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
Thursday May 13, 2004
The biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of ... Read More
Book Review: She Plays with the Darkness by Zakes Mda
Wednesday May 12, 2004
In a remote mountain village, the beautiful Dikosha lives for dancing and for song. Her twin brother, Radisene, works in the lowland capital of Maseru, struggling amid political upheaval. As ... Read More
Book Review: The Turk by Tom Standage
Sunday May 9, 2004
On an autumn day in 1769, a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen attended a conjuring show at the court of Maria Theresa, empress of Austria-Hungary. So unimpressed was Kempelen ... Read More
Book Review: Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann
Friday May 7, 2004
Fishing the Sloe-Black River, the short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals ... Read More
First Chapter: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
Tuesday May 4, 2004
Ben Sherwood's The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is one of those books that reveals the mysteries of the unseen world around us, gently transforming the pain of ... Read More
Book Review: Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth, edited by Susan Zakin
Saturday May 1, 2004
Naked brings together thirty-one pieces by writers who examine and challenge the way people live with our environment. Edward Abbey's newly published correspondence rants against passive nonresistance. Stacey Richter mines ... Read More