Reading Around

Sometimes fiction comes too close to fact. Recently, I’ve had to take a break from reading thrillers that feature crazy despots and [...]

I watch you walk away, Until you are reduced to a shadow; A memory; A living dream. You do not look back, Still, tears leave their trail, [...]

The premise of a professional magician who fights crime has been used in Harry Houdini films of the 1920s, 1939’s Miracles for Sale with, [...]

Authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson Talk with Dick Cavett It all started in 1974 when That’s Entertainment! lit a fire in the breasts of [...]

With the holidays just a few months away, those who plan to give homemade gifts need to get started on those projects now. Two books can [...]

I remember my first kiss: I remember the boy’s name; I remember the crispness in the autumn light; I remember walking on a country lane; [...]

Jen Maddox and her fifteen year-old daughter, Lana, book a week in the country where they hope to paint, go on long walks, and, most of [...]

Claudia Dreifus as you may be aware from her New York Times columns “A Conversation with…,” The New York Review of Books, or The [...]