Connie Willis novel a new take on time travel
In the year 2057 — when getting a Ph.D. in history is a high-risk endeavor requiring mental and physical endurance, athleticism, a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and Victorian table…
‘Luminous and Ominous’ offers thoughtful take on doomsday
It is kind of fun to think about the world ending. “Survivor” is on its 20-something season (I can’t even count them any more); AMC’s original series “The Walking Dead” wowed audiences…
‘The Marriage Plot’ offers new perspective on getting hitched
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” That’s the motto Madeleine Hanna lives by, anyway, in the 1980s college world of Jeffrey Eugenides’s…
Journalism professor writes children’s book
Inspiration comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s a painting, a sentence or a day’s right feelings. But for Monique Fields, it’s something much more personal. Fields, a professor of journalism…
Novel adds maturity to young adult genre
There’s nothing like child gladiators to up those network television ratings, am I right? That’s how it works in Panem, anyway – the totalitarian, post-nuclear holocaust North American government that…
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