Listphoria

  Like many other states, Virginia has a split identity. The Western and Southern regions are largely rural and agricultural, but the Northe...

A while ago, my students became obsessed by some sort of Tik Tok trend which involved trying to guess the identity of a classmate or famous ...

  This is a gorgeously written, important book. It’s emotionally complex, morally challenging, and intellectually fecund - all of which make...

There are two major storylines here: (1) the gradual collapse of American civilization in the face of a climate crisis, and (2) the establis...

  I'm almost old enough to have taught in the 1980s, but not so old that I don't still remember what the educational experience was ...

                   ] This is a hard book to review. The title and plot description would have readers believing that this is a light-hearted...

Boiling the plot down to the simplest terms, this is the story of a fabulously successful New York financier, Andrew Bevel, at the turn of t...

In honor of Halloween, thought I'd assemble the following list of things that are generally considered to be unnerving or terrifying. Ha...

OMG - where has Mary Elizabeth Braddon been all my life? She was a contemporary of Dickens, the precursor of Wilkie Collins, and (the forewa...

  This one goes out to all my teacher peers who find themselves in a continual state of stress and can't figure out why. You aren't ...

  My friends and I were mocking the preposterously macho names of certain sports teams and got to wondering what would happen if cities were...

  I value books that open my eyes to previously unsuspected episodes of history, and I especially value books that do so in a comprehensive ...

  It's the 1920s, and an eccentric Hollywood megalomaniac (Damon Chance) is determined to create an epic "great American film...

  This is the most satisfying thing I’ve read in a long time. It’s simultaneously funny and heartbreaking, authentic and quixotic, intellige...