The Luminaries (Booker Prize Winner)

Sometimes you want your beach reads as light and fluffy as the foam atop a piña colada. And sometimes you want something with a little more heft, a book more suited to reading alongside a Dark and Stormy. When you’re looking for the kind of beach reading that won’t fade from memory even faster than […]

One of the best things about reading historical fiction is its potential to educate while it entertains, showing us glimpses of the world as it once was. And one of the most frustrating aspects of historical fiction is the “fiction” part: without prior expertise we can’t be certain the things we’re reading are 100% accurate. […]

Thanksgiving, like all holidays, means different things to different people. An immense amount of food and drink? Probably. Awkward conversations with people you don’t see often? Almost certainly. Vast stretches of empty time spent in places with sketchy or nonexistent WiFi, like airports, grandma’s house, and possibly your entire hometown? Sadly, the Magic 8 Ball […]

There was once a real division between the different parts of the Entertainment Industrial Complex. Books were books, TV was TV, film was film, and theater was theater. Back in the day, actors didn’t easily cross from one medium to the next, and adaptations tended to stay in their lane. Not so much anymore. As hit […]