In simpler times we used have community dances. Boys would congregate along one wall of the dance hall, and the girls on the other. Those […] Read More
Category: Book Review
Husband and wife team Will and Ariel Durant spent forty years writing their celebrated eleven-volume history The Story of Civilization. In the process they made […] Read More
Western urban dwellers like me take for granted that we can buy whatever food takes our fancy by just popping down to our local shopping […] Read More
Rome was sacked by Gaul invaders in 390 BC, and in the 210s BC the Carthaginian general Hannibal wreaked havoc on the Italian Peninsula. Yet […] Read More
What did the Russian, Ottoman and Chinese empires share in common in the 15th and 20th Centuries? In the 15th century all three shunned the […] Read More
In 1621, the Dutch East Indies Company virtually exterminated the native people of the Bandu Islands in order to seize a monopoly on the lucrative […] Read More
The setup of the movie Don’t Look Up is recognizable enough: Two low-level astronomers (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a comet which […] Read More
Is going vegan or driving an electric car the best thing you can do to mitigate climate change? How about voting out climate deniers? According […] Read More
Did you know that some people love spoilers? Does knowing the climax or plot twists in advance make reading a book more or less enjoyable […] Read More
Author Marissa Slaven and I are both members of the Climate Fiction Writers League. The League asked us to interview each other about our respective […] Read More