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Ruth had stopped doubting herself the morning she saw Joe do a jigsaw puzzle upside down.  For some time, she had been nagged by a feelin...

I am as guilty of it as the next person - reading for comfort.  Either we read about worlds with which we are familiar or, and I think wor...

Award-winning Canadian novelist Marina Endicott is not widely known in the U.S., but she deserves to be. Her The Little Shadows (Doubleda...

In Sleeping on Jupiter (2015, Hachette India) Anuradha Roy creates a tale of convergences.  An Indian girl, Nomi, is orphaned when her pa...

A well-to-do Londoner, his marriage and his job as an investment banker in ruins as the economy collapses in 2008, receives a visit.  Zafa...

Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life (Doubleday, 2015) has been written about widely and short-listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.  As ...

Erasmus Darwin, 18th Century physician, writer, grandfather of the more famous Charles, and one of the eponymous lunar men of Jenny Uglow...

In the last several months I read the memoirs of two fascinating, beloved, gay, British-born public figures.  One was published recently, th...

A number of years ago, I switched from writing reading-to-reading impressions, posted as I read, to fully composed reviews after having fi...

If you have loved David Grossman's fiction, as I have (see here on To the End of the Land ), then you will appreciate this 2007 Paris ...

Three family sagas are the subject of this post.  What I like about this form is the intertwining of the characters' nar...

The life stories of two American Theatre makers monopolized my reading back in January: Elia Kazan: A Life , film and theatre director Kaz...

I talked to curious students about the Brain at BiobBase yesterday and took a really amazing tour through a 3-D brain in a planetarium...

This originally appeared here but I now post it below. When I heard that the opening event of Brain Awareness Week this year was on ...

Today, as more than 50,000 Russians march to honor Boris Y. Nemtsov, the Putin critic who was assassinated a few days ago, it seems timely t...

I have written enthusiastically of Charles Lambert's novels Little Monsters , Any Human Face ,  and  The View from the Tower .  His ne...

Last weekend, thanks to my friend Sheila , I attended a screening of a The Awful Truth , a 1937 screwball comedy about a married couple wh...

Some question the relevance of live theatrical performance in the age of Tivo and live streaming, but you wouldn't if you had seen two p...

I recently co-created a neuroscience lesson for TED-Ed.  It just went live.  Check us out!

Nowadays, the outcome of every scientific study is expected to be instantly useable by the public.  News media demands ready-made dietary ...