Great authors of fiction set in alternate worlds: Murray Leinster… Harry Turtledove… and Charlotte Brontë. Next month, Sotheby’s London will put on the auction block a manuscript the future author of Jane Eyre (1847) penned while…
Attention, all Waldo-watchers! Keep your eyes peeled in the direction of your local movie theater! MGM has purchased film rights to the iconic, bespectacled, candy-striped wanderer created by British illustrator Martin Handford in 1987. The…
If you really enjoy reading, every day is Book Lovers’ Day; but tomorrow, the first Saturday in November, is, at least by someone’s reckoning, a day set aside to celebrate the joys of reading for pleasure. To…
Halloween and I have a complicated past. As a kid growing up in a Christian home, my family was one that believed it was best not to celebrate Halloween in the traditional sense. So still,…
To me, Halloween is a classical holiday; not in the spiritual sense of Christmas and Easter, or the familial sense of Thanksgiving, but in that it brings me back to childhood. I’ve always loved a…
I admit: Real Steel was not on my movie-going radar. “A movie based on ‘Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots?’” I thought. “What’s next, a movie based on ‘Battleship?’” (Little did I know…) As it turns…
Bestselling novelist Michael Chabon knows some things about superheroes. If you haven’t yet read his Pulitzer-winning The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000), I strongly recommend you do. It’s a beautiful novel (at times, heart-breakingly…
* Spoiler Alert * This week we look at chapters 8, 9, and 10 of Usula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. At the conclusion of the novel, we find Ged chasing the…
* Spoiler Alert * This week we look at chapters 6 and 7 of Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. These two chapters encompass the heart of Ged’s journey In the beginning, he…
Not unlike “the hour” of which Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, the start of another academic year “cometh, and now is” (John 4.23, KJV). Whether the first school bells near you ring…
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