Books
Pagediving
It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of them in the last...
Through science, nature’s wonders
It is not the preferred style of Professor Richard Dawkins, the famed evolutionary biologist and militant atheist crusader, to preach to the choir...
Learning to love science fiction with Octavia E. Butler
Almost two decades ago, my sister gifted me Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred for Christmas and I admit I was skeptical. My preference for nonfiction...
A ‘haunted house comedy’ at Stories on Stage
According to Anthony Powell, artistic director for Stories on Stage, Stone Animals is a “haunted house comedy.”
The theater group will bring Miami-based author Kelly...
‘We’re all freaks, together’
G. Willow Wilson has spent her life telling stories. She’s told her own in her graphic novel Cairo and memoir Butterfly Mosque. She’s chronicled...
Book excerpt: ‘I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of...
In 2015, Baltimore had an uprising against police violence much like those occurring around the country this summer. When it happened, we were both...
David Foster Wallace: An American literary great revealed
“It sounded like the voice that I thought in,” says David Lipsky about the captivating literary style of novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. “Which of course is what you’re trying to do as a writer. And he’d done it! It was amazing! I was so thrilled. I faxed...
