Newsletter #5

Fi-Fi, Foo-Foo, Ooh-La-La, and Gaston: Mrs. Poodle's new puppies, one of whom--guess who?--doesn't look quite like the others. In fact, he looks rather bulldogish, which becomes particularly interesti... (Tom)

My copy of Homage to Catalonia which I bought for this month's Ridge Readers Book Club meeting is the 49th printing of the American edition. Why are we still reading Orwell's memoir of fighting in the... (Tom)

Your Face in Mine begins with the narrator's encounter with an old friend transformed: a white man who has become, through surgery and chemistry, a black man. It's the old Black Like Me premise, but R...