“There is a natural inclination in mankind to Kingly Government,” said Benjamin Franklin, and if they might seem unlikely words from such a pen, much of...
Naomi Watts remembers being told that by the time she turned 40, her acting career would be finished. Now 56, she is fresh off a Golden...
A gay lawyer and his estranged mother confront the past when he takes on an asylum case in “Mothers and Sons.” In an email interview, the...
HELLO STRANGER: Musings on Modern Intimacies, by Manuel Betancourt About halfway through his new book, “Hello Stranger,” Manuel Betancourt recounts his experience in a college course...
According to the scholar Earl Miner, “The test for [allusion] is that it is a phenomenon some reader or readers may fail to observe.” He does...
WE DO NOT PART, by Han Kang; translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We...
SCATTERGOOD, by H.M. Bouwman Narrated by 13-year-old Peggy Mott, part of a loving, tight-knit farm community, H.M. Bouwman’s new middle grade novel brims from the get-go...
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel...
Two years ago, Jeneane O’Riley self-published her fantasy romance novel, “How Does it Feel?,” an enemies-to-lovers tale about a woman who meets a handsome, unhinged fairy...
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 5. Neko Case: “Hold On, Hold On” When Case released her 2006 album “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood,”...
