Start Here: Lauren Elkin. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London. 2017. “The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her…
The mouth of this particular rabbit hole gaped wider with each page turned in Holt’s Rise of the Rocket Girls. The book’s tight focus follows several women as their computer skills helped make space flight possible, but the shutter opens to reveal a good deal about the JPL and the formation of NASA as well. For readers interested…
Sadly, I have to wait however long — and however long will be too long, I assure you — for series three of Grantchester, starring James Norton and Robson Green. (Withdrawal pangs struck not even a minute after the last scene of series two was consumed by credits. So, absolutely: another second without new views of Sidney &…
No sooner did the credits finish rolling on the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None that I wanted to watch it again. And then again after that. In point of fact, I didn’t want to stop watching it, ever, if possible. (Which made purchasing a digital copy a must for me,…
Bakewell’s new book on Sartre, Beauvoir, and Company blinked onto my radar several months ago and stayed there, but it wasn’t until I read The Bookseller’s interview with the author, and then a Beauvoir-centric excerpt, that the book went from under consideration to Must Read. While I might have read The Second Sex and Being…
After many years spent traveling and reporting on the considerable number of life-altering events of her era, Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, passed away on this day in 1998, at the age of 89. Gellhorn began as a novelist before turning to journalism, had the dubious honor of being Ernest Hemingway’s third wife, and considered Eleanor…
H.A. and Marget Rey’s contribution to children’s literature is unarguably huge, with the appeal of Curious George showing no signs of diminishing, well, ever. The insatiably curious monkey, along with the Man With the Yellow Hat, Pretzel, and other familiar faces have won a lasting place in the minds of little ones and young-at-heart adults,…
PBS has a new drama for lovers of history in general and Civil War buffs specifically. Start Here I’ll admit I’m not that into the Civil War when it comes to history but I’m intrigued by this not often seen side of the war. “This is not your typical Civil War epic. There are no…
This particular reading intersections topic is near and dear to my heart. You see, a few months ago I fell down this very rabbit hole, amassing a towering pile of non-fiction espionage titles, mostly those pinned to the heart of the Cold War. I have yet to see the light of day, quite happy to…
When we first conceived of the Reading Intersections feature, one of the first books that came to mind to use as a springboard was Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, but I didn’t want to use the too-broad theme of private schools…And then I had it: The only way to go theme-wise was with Bad Decisions.
Fall down the rabbit hole with us! In our Reading Intersections series, we’ll give you a place to start and where to go next, piling titles on until you’re neck-deep in books, graphic novels and movies on a similar theme. | Perhaps the title is a bit misleading, perhaps you thought this was going to be about the city, but no…No, this is going to be about the poet Robert Lowell and the many, many letters he wrote during his lifetime.
If you love English Georgian drama (or are just an Aidan Turner fan) then you are probably neck deep in the BBC’s Poldark. Well we’ve got plenty more where that came from.
Fall down the rabbit hole with us! In our Reading Intersections series, we’ll give you a place to start and where to go next, piling titles on until you’re neck-deep in books, and movies on a similar theme. Start Here Testament of Youth 2015 This is the movie adaptation of Vera Brittain’s classic World War…
Fall down the rabbit hole with us! In our Reading Intersections series, we’ll give you a place to start and where to go next, piling titles on until you’re neck-deep in books, graphic novels and movies on a similar theme. Hold onto your hats and holsters, folks, you’re about to meet several headstrong, gun-slinging women…