Newsletter #314

Even during their own lives, the women, men, and children entangled in the Salem witch trials were caught between reality and the imagination, and as their lives have been further mythologized since,... (Tom)

The only thing more impressive than an author conjuring a realistic world and three-dimensional characters from thin air is when they manage to do so in only 114 pages. Let's peer for a moment into th... (Haley)

Josiah Wedgwood might be remembered best now as a venerable fine-china tradename and, perhaps, as Charles Darwin's grandfather, but in his tirelessly eventful life he put himself at the center of a ra... (Tom)

Does the cover of Time Is a Flower make you think of an early '80s jazzercise VHS tape, or a late '70s Gail Sheehy bestseller? Open it anyway, and you'll find a wonderfully evocative and open-ended ap... (Tom)