An admission: I’m not a very nice board game player. As a child I sulked when I lost, crowed when I won, and cheated when I could, and as an adult I just barely manage to slap a thin veneer of politeness and fair play over the savage brat within. So when I hear families talk […]
Sometimes it seems like classic novels have just always existed; they were there when most of us were born, and seem like eternal aspects of daily life. But behind every novel is a second story, a sometimes hidden tale about how that novel came to be. These stories-behind-the-stories are often just as fascinating as the novels […]
Sometimes it seems like classic novels have just always existed: they were there before most of us were born, and seem an eternal aspect of the cultural landscape. But behind every novel is a second story, a sometimes-hidden one about how that novel came to be. And these stories-behind-the-stories are sometimes just as fascinating as the novels they produced. Here […]