Lacunae Musing

    Ross Barkan's recent novel, Colossus , returns to a theme he explored in Glass Century : concealed family relationships and the re...

  Here is an unforgettable Valentine’s card of a novel, particularly affecting for those of us from the boomer years or earlier.   I suppo...

Last week my long-time college friend, Bruce, wrote “My brother died this morning.   I tell you because you are my oldest friend, and a...