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This is not a story book; it’s written as a history book.  The idea is that Maester Yandel wrote this book as a gift to the king. (The

I have given up on the Song of Fire and Ice—mostly because I don’t think R. R. Martin will ever finish the books and so am happy that

They did not invent or even perfect the automobile because Wilbur Wright “could not imagine how any contrivance that made such a racket and had so many things

She starts with the sidewalk.  The sidewalk, after all, is where we live most of our lives if we live in a city.  It’s where we walk, where

As with its precursor High Rage, it’s a little hard to describe the plot of Taking Hope.  OK, at one level it’s easy: Morgan (aka Scarface) has decided

A while back, I read an article about how a part of the reason for our opioid epidemic is our loneliness.  In many ways, Packer’s The Unwinding is

This is not a social studies book. It does not pretend to speak about the objectively real “facts on the ground.” Which means that while he tells up

If you have been watching economic news this week, you will have heard that the British pound collapsed in a “flash crash.”  Most news stories leave it at

This short e-book will delight anyone who follows football (soccer) or is a Nick Hornby fan. If you’re an Arsenal fan, you will love it. But even if

The premise of the short story is simple: Charlie and Elaine divorce and Elaine (who writes for a major paper) immediately starts a column detailing all of Charlie’s