China Miéville’s postmodern fantasies in “Three Moments of an Explosion”
The contemporary British fantasist China Miéville's collection of short stories is a diverse mix of styles.
This week in women’s history: Poet-novelist-activist Marge Piercy turns 80
Piercy has written 17 novels, including bestsellers, and 19 volumes of poetry.
Ideology in crime mysteries: dapper detectives vs. working PIs
For many years, detectives came from a variety of occupational backgrounds - but with the large exceptions of industrial workers and farmers - "largely because these people do not have the leisure time to be detectives."
Today in black history: Happy birthday Toni Morrison
On February 18, 1931 author Toni Morrison was born She was the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Phillip Bonosky, 1916-2013, chronicled life and politics from Pittsburgh to Phnom Penh
Author Phillip Bonosky, a member of the Communist Party since 1938, died Saturday, March 2, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
