Browsing a bookstore some time ago this reviewer chose physicist Richard Feynman’s The Meaning of It All. The cashier at checkout picked up the 122-page book turned it over set it down. “Somehow” he said “I thought it would be... Read More

The Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, yet according to the author this segment of the population continues to be discriminated against. And he should know, having spent more than thirty years in the field. “I went over to... Read More

“My mother was a slave named Violet4264. I’d always wanted to see where she’d carved her life in stone.” So says Porkpie early on in “C-Rock City,” a tale that looks at an issue as old as humanity itself: slavery. Part of the... Read More

This series of essays goes further than the usual sex, dating, and “you and your cat” writing that readers might expect from a book about being single women. Mapes arranges the short essays, by thirty different authors, in seven... Read More

There are few social theories on which a Victorian male scholar and a modern feminist would agree, but the suppression of women in Ancient Greece is one of them. According to the author, the tendency to mold history to fit a contemporary... Read More

Americans have a long and divided history concerning legal recreational drugs. The twin vices of tobacco and alcohol, paired in the public mind, have lead to a deep cultural divide. Along the fault line created by these substances are... Read More

Is the absence of a few wrinkles worth dying for? A couple in south Florida learned the answer the hard way. Kaplan and his wife Bonnie are upset with themselves, the government, and the doctors they trusted to make good choices, not... Read More

When Karolina Staszek shows up in Phillip Landau’s Manhattan law office one rainy afternoon in 1967 claiming to be his long-lost cousin—who was thought to have been killed during the Holocaust more than twenty years earlier—Phillip... Read More