The Best of the Bard: Nine Literary Works That Radically Reimagine Shakespeare
Decades ago, as a young Shakespeare professor awash in a sea of books and articles about the playwright, I heeded the implicit academic...
Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership!
Over the course of summer 2023—giving myself a hard deadline of Labor Day—I set out to read my way through Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin...
Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks
What’s worse than Middle School? Watching your child suffer through it. Those years were excruciating for my son Elijah—even at his small progressive...
How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification
An über-candy, the psychic template for American lollipops. A serious classic, unstoppable, good fresh and good old and good even after having melted...
Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia
Bibliophobia: occasionally manifests as an acute, literal fear of books, though more frequently develops as a generalized anxiety about reading in patients who...
Ray White Leaders Group recommit for another term
The Leaders Group extends across Wellington, Kapiti Mana, Horowhenua, Hutt Valley, Wairarapa, and Hawkes Bay, with 24 branches and 187 salespeople within their...