A new novel by Toni Morrison always generates a lot of hoopla. Given Morrison's penchant for describing raw, festering emotional torment, her books [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 20, 2003 Read More
Beware the undead! Look around your office. There's always one or two people who seem just a little off. I'm sure you've noticed. [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 13, 2003 Read More
Back in 1991, then Vice President Dan Quayle won a much-deserved Ig Nobel Prize in Education "for demonstrating, better than anyone, the need [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 13, 2003 Read More
For obvious reasons, comparisons between Nazi Germany and the United States usually sound trite and over-inflated. The horrors of the Third Reich have [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 06, 2003 Read More
I don't consider myself a huge Monty Python fanatic. I can't say I love every episode and movie. Hell, half the time I [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 06, 2003 Read More
A Divided Nation Back in the early '90s, a joke made the rounds about Cuba. It went like this. What are the triumphs of Fidel Castro's [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 06, 2003 Read More
S.T. Joshi points out in his introduction that Ambrose Bierce "was censured, even in his own lifetime, as a cynic or misanthrope." Bierce's [...] Kane S. Latranz \ Nov 06, 2003 Read More
Jhumpa Lahiri has already been hailed as one of the best young writers to hit the scene in years. Her short story collection, [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Oct 30, 2003 Read More
What? The history of a dictionary? Could there be a more boring topic on Earth? How about a history of toe-nail clippers? Or [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Oct 30, 2003 Read More
In William Grother's somber and beautifully composed introduction for Hadrosaur Tales #16, "The Widow's Walk," Grother addresses the Columbia space shuttle disaster and [...] Kane S. Latranz \ Oct 30, 2003 Read More
