Literary Strolls : Dublin, Ireland
“When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.” –James Joyce Dublin may have written itself on James Joyce’s heart, but Joyce’s history is equally written across the landscape of the city…
“When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.” –James Joyce Dublin may have written itself on James Joyce’s heart, but Joyce’s history is equally written across the landscape of the city…
Girl at War by Sara Novic (Random House) When most Americans think about the Balkan states and the wars which raged there in the second half of the 20th century we think about Bosnia…
by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton and Company) The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings is perhaps the single most scandalous relationship in American history. For an imbalance of power, it…
If you’re anything like us, you perk up a little when you see someone reading in public. We do a double take, and sometimes we even backtrack to see what book has caught…
When planning a summer reading list, it is often a challenge to pick titles that can compete with the gorgeous weather outside. Be it on the beach or your own backyard, summer reads…
Of course there are animal species we don’t know about yet, but surely they are all small ones: bugs, lizards, perhaps small mammals in particularly remote locations, right? Certainly we must know about…