Have you ever been recommended a book that sounded perfectly up your alley … until you looked it up and discovered it was an 800-page tome written almost 200 years ago? This might be intimidating for ...

The importance of chance played out with Charles Darwin being offered a role of companion on the ship HMS Bagle too, when the captain wanted someone to talk to on the voyage. If that had not happened, ...

Lima Public Library is open to the public six days a week. Hours for the Main Library in Lima are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Our Cairo, ...

Maggie Armstrong’s debut collection of linked stories follows Margaret, an aspiring writer, from her loss of virginity to her life as a mother in a distant Dublin suburb ...

For a book that turned out to be quite a mood lifter, Bina Nayak’s Goagr@m engendered a huge amount of angst in my editor’s soul as I read it. First, the unnecessary introduction by ...

BEFORE JUSTICE AWAKES by Vijaya Chandrasoma Ranjan Gooneratne, who Ranjan Gooneratne, who practices law in a legal environment in Sri Lanka unrecognizable to the one in which he received his training ...

Mistry hasn’t written a book in nearly two decades so when I bought Such a Long Journey in 2021, I saved it as a treat for the right time. I finally decided to read the book a few days ago – the heat ...

Throughout the novel, we track Lillian’s involvement in feminist causes along with her passion to reclaim the true story of Henry Lawson’s ‘The Drover’s Wife.’ ...

The writer Dolly Alderton has long had an avid following in her native England, but with her best-selling comic novel “Good Material” she’s become a trans-Atlantic success.

In this revival of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of the Woolf novel, now starring Taylor Mac, the flashes of comedy can’t make up for the loss of poetry.

Signature Theatre’s revival of the groovy Vietnam-era musical HAIR is wildly energetic, colorful, and full of spirit. The cast’s gorgeous voices and exuberance uplift songs that we know as the ...