The Phantom Tollbooth – You are never too old to read and love Norton Juster’s 1961 novel marketed for children. How is it possible to
If you don’t dress in black or hang out in coffeehouses, why would you want to read poetry? I mean really, you squeaked through all
Connie Willis is one of the leading figures in science-fiction today. Her recent time-travel novels Blackout and All Clear (2010) won both the Hugo and
Into the Heart of the Country A great deal has been written in recent decades about the impact of colonialism on native people and on
THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME POEM BY POEM Storm Warnings The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What
The subtitle of Greenblatt’s book is How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. It is a great lead-in to this most lively and innovative look at the Bard’s
THE WILD BRAID: A POET REFLECTS ON A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN Stanley Kunitz, U.S. Poet Laureate, one among his many honors, published The Wild
David Ignatius writes novels about what he knows best. As a Wall Street Journal reporter for ten years, he covered the Department of Justice, the
Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War War and peace. Williams’s initial memoir, Love My Rifle More
Love My Rifle More than You: Young & Female in the U.S. Army Kayla Williams If you weren’t paying attention to the first sentence of
Traveling Light is a series of Pastan’s personal reflections on life. Each poem is like a snapshot; it shows you a picture of a specific
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo The English-speaking world’s fascination—perhaps obsession—with Italy is at least 500 years old. A vast
My Life as a Foreign Country takes us into the nightmare terrain of war. Focusing on Iraq during a 2003 tour of duty, Brian Turner’s
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century Every nation remembers the Great War differently. For some there was nothing
Farthest Field, An Indian Story of the Second World War Two and a half million Asian Indians volunteered to fight in World War II. It
THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS: CHIEF JOSEPH, OLIVER OTIS HOWARD, AND THE NEZ PERCE WAR Who owns history? The uninformed may claim that victors write history.
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