In 1953 J. D. Salinger published Nine Stories and this week he died. These two occasions represent triumph and tragedy, respectively, and this particular online book review is dedicated to the memory of a brilliant American author.
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Wallace’s 2005 collection of essays is by no means new media, yet worthy of note this month, the half-birthday of DFW’s unfortunate demise. Consider the Lobster, like all of Wallace’s prose, is hard work to read. These days, where drippy, thin works like Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight and Jodi Picoult’s entire repertoire are widely touted, the [...]
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Upon finishing this book, you might wonder why a portrait of its subject, Joseph Priestly, isn’t seen on some piece of American currency. He was that important. He was also a good friend of a number of folks who did eventually get their faces on money, such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
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The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Problem of His Time Here’s the problem: Using the sky and simple instruments, ship’s captains of the 18th century could determine fairly accurately how far north or south of the equator their ships were positioned (the latitude). The sky provided few useful clues, however, [...]
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Many people mistakenly believe that scientists are the best people to test of the paranormal. After all, scientists get their name from their assiduous use of the scientific method, which has proven to be the most powerful tool ever conceived to reveal the workings of the natural world. The key difference here is in the [...]
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