Now that Halloween is in the rearview mirror in Eylan Hollow, Bailey Briggs is gearing up for the Christmas season at the Lazy Bones Bookshop, which she runs with help from her dedicated crew of workers and her big furry dog, Jack. At a reception where two competing historical societies will discuss mapping the town’s […]
Zara Persil-Pendleton is a private investigator in Alameda, California, who mostly takes employment-related cases with a sideline involving the museum world, particularly regarding Judaica-related works and their provenance. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who hid her Jewishness after the war, Zara finds this heritage connection becoming important to her later in life. That […]
As 17-year-old Maura Ellard is leaving the women’s clinic where she terminated her pregnancy, she’s spotted by Maxine, a classmate she barely knows, who later violates her privacy by revealing this information on social media. Maura is comfortable with the choice she made—she’s relieved, knowing she did the right thing for herself—but she wanted to […]
Rosenstiel, a press critic and journalism professor, presents a solid case that news organizations’ problems are bigger than they realize. Along with declining public trust and countless newsroom layoffs, the industry faces an “intellectual” crisis. Woefully behind the times, journalists must embrace “emotionally intelligent newsgathering” that “meets audiences where they are.” Seasoned reporters may blanch […]
Kagan was a renowned Jewish scholar, editor of Yiddish literature, and author of several books following his immigration to the United States from Italy in 1950. He first published the diary of his Holocaust survival in the original Yiddish in 1955. Readers now have access to an English version of this diary; Kagan’s daughter donated […]
Born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in Venezuela, Carlos was just one of the countless fake names that “the Jackal” used. It was the one that stuck and the one that he used in Warrick’s opening episode, when Carlos and crew attacked a meeting of OPEC ministers in Vienna in 1975. Just whom he was working for […]
Inside, the studio hums with motion as the youngster wanders from room to room, each spread revealing a new style: ballet at the barre, swirling hula, the powerful unity of the haka, and more. As the journey continues, Mello’s illustrations grow more abstract and electric: Technicolored breakdancers explode across pop-art panels of bold color and […]
Math unnerves Nikhil, who prefers art, storytime, and gardening. But Nikhil’s teacher, Ms. Oates, suggests that the youngster write letters to math (“She thinks it will help us be friends. It won’t”). Over time, Nikhil’s hostility (“You make my tummy hurt,” “I still don’t want to be friends”) turns to curiosity and even passion. Told […]
Despite efforts to bring them up to speed, readers unfamiliar with the series opener may flounder as the mildly surreal continuing storyline takes a few more dizzying spins in this second entry. Being the last of the murderous Paladins still at liberty after Rodeo’s application of the Plunger of Truth, bad guy Athelstan concocts an […]
If everyone in Clifton County knows everyone else, that may be because half the people in North Falls, one of the county’s four cities, are named Clifton. Det. Allison Vickery doesn’t turn up for the funeral of acting sheriff Emmy Clifton’s mother, Myrna Joy Clifton, first because she’s fleeing her abusive husband, Bill Garrison, then […]