In Burn, Peter Heller walks a fine genre line through dystopian fiction
Peter Heller’s 2019 novel, The River, was a fast-flowing tale with hidden depths and dark currents. Wynn and Jack, two best friends at Dartmouth who share a…
The split Left: joy vs. pain: The barbarians aren't at the gates. They've already crashed them
Peter Heller’s 2019 novel, The River, was a fast-flowing tale with hidden depths and dark currents. Wynn and Jack, two best friends at Dartmouth who share a…
The third book in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, recounts the tale of Edmund and Lucy Pevensie’s stirring adventures on…
Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7 produced two shocks. The first was the gruesome success of the attack. Hamas militants faced almost no resistance as they…
Have you ever watched a TV show that got too big? Earlier this year I watched The OC for the first time, the 2003 hit soap opera…
In an age before social media, texting, and even email, talk show viewers who had something to say had two ways of expressing themselves: They could place…
The SS United States needs help. It has been docked in Philadelphia since 1996 and now faces eviction or destruction if no resolution is reached to save…
In her speech to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Michelle Obama talked of “the luxury of whining … cheating others … chang[ing] the rules so we…
Suppose Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in the mid-1980s and woken last week to the news that the United States was updating its nuclear deterrence…