It's never really bad compared to the vast dreck-loads of bad fiction foisted upon the reading public in this country...At its best, which it is impossibly often– I mean, come on, the greatest sluggers in baseball only make base hits a minority of their at-bats, most of the time...
Everything looks just like cardboard pictures falling apart in the rain. From “I’ll Have to Say Goodbye” Kerry Chater and Renee Armand Skylark Album arranged by David Foster This week has been filled with pain. Literally, I have been struggling with an abscessed tooth. I’d had a root...
After all, adventure with a grand sweep is a love of this genre. Typical of such endeavors is Orson Scott Card's Xenocide (TOR, 394 pp., $21.95), the third book in his Ender series, preceded by his popular "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead."Card continues the story of ...
Jeremy Gavron grew up with the faintest of impressions of his mother, who died when he was four years old, in 1965. He didn't know that her death was a suicide until he was 16, and only decades later did he embark upon an exploration of her life and reasons for ending it.A Woman ...
(Whereabouts) inTranslating Myself and Others. Talk about linguistically precocious: when a teacher forced five-year-old Lahiri to write "Dear Mom" in her homemade Mother's Day card, rather than the Bengali "Ma," she had already "intuited the central and complex role that translation was ...
(because I didn’t get that spare tire), all I had to do at the register was leave a tip for the massage therapist. I’d also been told to expect that, and yes, it was clearly printed on the gift certificate as well. I handed over my credit card since I don’t believe in ...
Atlas Obscuraexplored "library hand, the fastidiously neat penmanship style made for card catalogs." --- From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "MappingThe Hunger Games--Using location quotients to find the districts of Panem." --- A Canadian university professor "claims to have found theonly ex...