It was a thrilling day for many American women when Sandra Day O’Connor joined her 8 colleagues on the Supreme…
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The great landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, worked as a journalist for many years before his long career designing such…
A heart-wrenching, extensively researched book about “The Troubles”, focused on events during the height of Northern Ireland’s violent guerrilla war…
I picked up the galley of this novel (published on June 18) because of the fun title, and the book…
What an original first book posing as a spy novel—and novel it is. It purports to be the journal of…
From the ominous opening line– “They had been smelling smoke for two days.”–we are alerted to what might become of…
Reading this committed, maybe even obsessed, conservationist/animal lover will be “something captivating even intoxicating” as Andrews describes his heightened alertness…
Ms. Hockfield, president emeritus and first female president of MIT brought a big change in direction to the Institute with…
We all know at least one cranky cactus, right? Hank is a prickly cactus, living alone in the desert and…