Jane on the Brain: Science of Social Intelligence Meets Jane Austen
The thought of Darcy and Elizabeth as walking computers, calculating the sum of neural activity, is likely to irritate many Austen [...]
Reading Around
Poet’s Corner – No One’s Asking You
No one’s asking you To change your mind. Or find A new way to breathe; To exhale the bitter, The madness or goodness. We are only human. [...]
Five Great Reads For the Cold Weather
Ah winter. Time for hot chocolate, weather advisory alerts, and staying indoors. And when you’re stuck inside the only things [...]
P.D. James Farewell – A Terrific Collection of Short Stories
To fans who have enjoyed – no, loved – P.D. James’ novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard investigator who also [...]
The Last Neanderthal – Fresh Insight into a Lost Race
They didn’t think as much about what was different. Homo Neanderthalis. A race of archaic humans who roamed the earth for 200,000 years [...]
Neil Simon’s Memoirs: Rewrites and The Play Goes On
If you’re unfamiliar with the name Neil Simon, it seems clear you’ve regularly attended neither theater nor film, have an aversion to [...]
David Ignatius’ The Quantum Spy
Washington Post columnist and Morning Joe regular David Ignatius also finds time to write novels, including Body of Lies which was made [...]
The Life We Bury – Clearing an Innocent Man
For a college English class, Joe Talbert has to interview an elderly person and write a biography. Unfortunately, most of the residents at [...]
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