To each their own: words that sum up the ideal and the struggle faced by the characters in Mona Lisa Smiled a Little. Alameida Kerwell has the ideal nuclear family: a husband, two grown daughters, ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Daydreaming about sex has gotten more than one person through a boring church service, but Kenneth Radu’s Strange and Familiar Places carries mental escapism to new heights. Radu’s heroine Evelyn is always on the lookout ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Grant Buday has an exceptional talent for creating characters who are resonantly alive, frequently funny, largely despicable, yet unavoidably sympathetic.In his latest book, Buday creates a rollicking black comedy of errors with moments of genuine ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
If, say, Flannery O’Connor and oh, say, David Lynch were to meet in, let’s just say, a fetish club somewhere, and decide that they were born to collaborate, the product of their mindmeld might read ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
There are two kinds of celebrity cookbooks: those by chefs famous for their culinary skills, and those by stars of stage or screen who claim they like to unwind in the kitchen. Among the luminaries ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink
There are two kinds of celebrity cookbooks: those by chefs famous for their culinary skills, and those by stars of stage or screen who claim they like to unwind in the kitchen. Among the luminaries ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink
There are two kinds of celebrity cookbooks: those by chefs famous for their culinary skills, and those by stars of stage or screen who claim they like to unwind in the kitchen. Among the luminaries ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink
There are two kinds of celebrity cookbooks: those by chefs famous for their culinary skills, and those by stars of stage or screen who claim they like to unwind in the kitchen. Among the luminaries ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink
Given the eruption of hype that usually accompanies Microsoft launches, the arrival of Office 2000 in June was a decidedly low-key event. There were no Rolling Stones tie-ins, no TV commercials, no magazine ad blitzes, ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment