Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World Although Atomic Comics was reviewed by Sunny earlier on this site, as an old-time comics fan, mostly from the
“The answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” So what was the question? At seventy-two, Bob Dylan’s hundreds of songs have become an iconic part
Not since Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers in 1942 has there been a more jaundiced portrait of motherhood. Mother, Mother is a novel about a
Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Let me tell you a story. Growing up in the 1950s, I
With Mending the Moon, Nevada writer Susan Palwick emerges as a major literary figure. Her work until now has been mostly in the field of
This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to
True Believers is a book for boomers, the generation that came of age in the 1960’s, a turbulent time of political unrest in America. There were
ALMOST SOMEWHERE You might reasonably expect Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail to be a trail guide, a documentary instruction booklet on how to
Robert Graysmith is a San Francisco writer best known for his true-crime accounts of serial killers: Zodiac, Unabomber, and Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax
To kids growing up in the 1950’s, the name Mary Martin meant just one thing: Peter Pan. This was a television re-creation of the 1954
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
Maureen Johnson’s latest YA novel, adds a few new wrinkles to the expanding mythology of Jack the Ripper. The myth-making began in 1913, just 25
Myrna Loy The Only Good Girl in Hollywood is the first formal biography of the popular star famous for the six Thin Man films made
Inspired by the pulp magazine detective stories of the 1930‘s and ‘40‘s, Tumor is a graphic novel gathering in book form the eight parts that
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