An American Bluestocking
The diary of an intrepid reader
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From bedroom to studio: The making of Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album isn’t like any other album he has ever recorded — certainly nothing he had done up to that point (1982) in…
Historians take the wheel in ‘Myth America’
With Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past (2023), Kruse and his fellow editor Julian Zelizer (also a Princeton…
Murder in the corn
What really happened to the wife of a crop scientist in the Iowa cornfields?
The sex symbol who couldn’t see himself
I’m guessing you already know who Paul Newman is (if you don’t, please comment and tell me!) so I won’t waste words on an introduction…
Obsession and mystery in ‘My Cousin Rachel’
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we get involved with our dead cousin’s widow.
Eerie stories in your ear
A haunted house on an island off the coast of Cornwall challenges a group of psychical researchers to solve a ghostly mystery.
The mystery of the one-book detective
Dol Bonner got to star in only one of Rex Stout’s mysteries, which is a shame.
Longmire in limbo
When Sheriff Walt Longmire is injured in pursuit of a suspect, he finds himself hovering in an ambiguous spiritual limbo where the past lives on.
What we do in the dark and preach in the sunlight
In journalist Kelsey McKInney’s debut novel, Caroline and Abigail struggle to reconcile their pastor father’s actions with the gospel he preaches.
Happiness is having your own library card.
Sally Brown in Peanuts
My Life Is an Open Book
Hi, I’m Julia. I started reading before kindergarten, and I haven’t stopped since. The next best thing to reading a book is talking about it with friends.
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