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23 Actresses Who Suffered Early Deaths, Accidents, Missteps, Illnesses and Tragedies  By Laura Wagner McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferso...

My favorite radio station is WQED-FM , a classical music channel. Normally I listen for a couple of hours each day. But WQED has been off...

Noted music critic and English hipster Richard Williams has just published a list of his favorite disco songs.  When he was writing for Melo...

by Michael S. Schmidt Random House. New York. 2020. 432 pages. ISBN 978-1-9848-5466-7 This is a responsible, well-researched account. Schmid...

 I’ve just signed my mail-in ballot for the November 2020 election. I voted for Joe Biden. Not Donald Trump. And I shall tell you why.   T...

The often-seen statement "We support our police" strikes me as too broad.  My support is conditional. I support police officers wh...

  This graph shows Covid-19 data for the entire USA (source: The New York Times) .  It’s not encouraging.    The average daily case counts g...

With the news of Diana Rigg's death, I've been thinking about why she made such an impression on me. I first became aware of her whe...

  [Cartoon by Kevin Kallaugher. The Economist.] Every few weeks, The President of the United States says or tweets something that irritates...

This is the text of an e-mail I was going to send to a close friend. Not wanting to hurt feelings or ignite a feud, I wisely (???) decided t...

Published in 1923, this British detective novel has an ingenious story line and well-drawn characters. For me, however, it was spoiled by un...

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you liked Megan Abbott's "Dare Me" and Tana French's ...

The Outsider by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Outsider is excellent work by Stephen King - his best in quite a while. I read...

Yarrow by Charles de Lint My rating: 4 of 5 stars In this enjoyable work of speculative fiction, Cat Midhir has a foot in two worlds....

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This novel has all the merits of Bouman's "The Bramble and the Rose...

The Bramble and the Rose by Tom Bouman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Quarantined at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I read this in about t...

Fox News Channel is the most-watched U.S. cable news network, according to this October 2019 story in Deadline.com .  Viewers in 3rd Q...

Conviction by Denise Mina My rating: 4 of 5 stars I've read most of Denise Mina's novels. For some reason I can't quite re...

Walk the Wild With Me by Rachel Atwood My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a nice read for fantasy fans, followers of folklore and Anglophil...

A recent article in The Londonist makes the startling observation that "mind the gap" announcements on the Underground were once m...