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The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

By: Holly Beth Anderle

In her first novel, author and artist Audrey Niffenegger writes a story about a love that has to, by necessity, transcend time. more...

Book Review: Glass People

By: Eva Gordon

The beautiful wife of a politician, is overcome with ennui and takes off in various directions to try and find her missing spirit. more...

The New Face of American Literature

By: Cresta McGowan

Do the new representations of American Literature have the same strong hold as our beloved "classics" on the literary forefront? more...

The Road – Book Review

By: Laura Bernell

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is about love and survival in the aftermath of an apocalypse. Amid horrific dangers, one father and son maintain love and human decency. more...

The Bell Jar

By: Sara Carroll

The Bell Jar was to be Sylvia Plath's last written outing. Hailed a classic, its a shame Plath didn't live long enough to enjoy its success. more...

Polygamy in Popular Culture

By: Stephanie Whitelock

There is something voyeuristically fascinating about polygamy: the politics, the sex, the secrecy. And it is a practice creeping its way into books and TV plots. more...

Bohjalian's Midwives – Birth, Death, and Magic

By: Rebekah Richards

Chris Bohjalian's Midwives explores the trial of a midwife charged for murder for performing an emergency homemade Caesarean section on a woman she believed was dead. more...

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