With the feminist-sounding title and the bright yellow cover that screams “beach read,” it is easy to write off The Summer Without Men at first glance as the literary version [...]

Visitors got an alternative education last weekend at the 2011 Boston Anarchist Bookfair, sponsored by the Progressive Librarians Guild at Simmons College. The bookfair, held from November 11 to 13, [...]

Fair Play, Thomas Teal’s translation of Tove Jansson’s Swedish novel Rent Spel, is distinct from the average American novel.  It is seemingly about nothing in particular, as it chronicles the day-to-day lives [...]

This past Thursday evening, the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, in conjunction with the Educational Bridge Project, hosted “Tales of Passionate Pursuits in Love and Art: St. Petersburg and Beyond” [...]

Going to the grocery store can be a daunting task.  There are a multitude of aisles filled with countless types of food, making it easy to get distracted and overwhelmed.  [...]

Julia and Valentina are frighteningly similar. As mirror-image twins, they are perfectly symmetrical to one another. Valentina’s heart is even located on the opposite side of her chest, causing her [...]

When I picked up Swamplandia! for the first time, I was confused. Depicted on the cover in cartoon-style artistry is a little girl, braids blowing in the breeze, sitting atop a [...]

The economy is in shambles, the government is divided on every important issue and there is yet another disappointment to add to the list: the country has fallen behind. “In [...]

The woman is too powerful.  She controls a massive percentage of the uterine population, and their unborn children.  This is a (book club) revolution.  It will not be televised.  Can [...]

Sun is good.  A cold Corona buzz is good.  Tanning up that pastiness is good.  Potential sunglass tan, not ideal but acceptable.  I like raccoons.  Bringing out some strategically colored, [...]