Nancy Rubin Stuart specializes in women’s and social history, and she often highlights unsung heroines of history. Her latest book, Defiant Brides, delves into the “dusty male-oriented archives” of history and finds two romances. But one of the women she profiles, Lucy [...]
The term “chick lit” makes me want to burn a bra, with its demeaning label and insinuation that literature written for and about women must be (so sloppily) qualified as its own genre. Nevertheless, there’s no denying a type of [...]
Despite the rantings of our favorite conspiracy theorist Facebook friends, we all know that Dan Brown’s books aren’t actually a fount of vital, world-changing information that must be protected at all costs. …Y’know, except for when they are, as was [...]
Great news you already know! Our favorite dysfunctional family returns on Sunday, and we’re chee-chaw-ing like a bunch of excited chickens up in here. As one would expect after such a long winter’s nap, surely season 4 will finally show [...]
Wisdom can be gained in the unlikeliest of places—like in a crowded movie theater, watching the new Star Trek movie Into Darkness. Over the weekend, my wife and I saw the film CNN has called a “sleek, thrilling epic”—and during [...]
More than half of the young adult books sold in the US are bought by adults—adults who 78% of the time are buying the books for themselves, not a teen. So why are you still hiding your copy of Divergent [...]
Over the weekend, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America announced the winner of this year’s Nebula Award for Best Novel: Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312. This pleases me greatly, as it was my predicted winner, as well my favorite [...]
Nearly a week has passed since Da Vinci Code author/very rich man Dan Brown released his latest blockbuster novel, Inferno. The book, which is perched atop many a bestseller throne, has inspired a flourish of, shall we say, passionate criticism among [...]
Even those who doubt Knox’s innocence can’t deny that she was unfairly villainized. The police and press stole and misinterpreted her journals, bugged her, twisted her words, and spread lies. (For example, it was reported that receipts proved she bought [...]
