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★★★★☆ There are numerous ways that various countries structure their healthcare system, but Adam Kay tackles the universal attributes of the physician experience. Regardless of geographic region, if you’re a doctor, you’re probably overworked,...
★★☆☆☆ Author Marie Robert believes that philosophy’s priceless wisdom doesn’t belong buried away in ancient tomes, but should instead be discussed at bars, offices and dinner parties. In When You Kant Figure It Out,...
★★★★☆ “Frankenstein” has entered our consciousness as an undead monster in a curious confusion of roles. Frankenstein was actually Victor Frankenstein, the man who created the monster in Mary Shelley’s eponymous masterpiece. Books, television,...
★★★★★ Hurricanes and nor’easters come and go leaving a trail of broken homes amid the debris of a lifetime of living and acquiring and they generate stories in their aftermath. Sometimes, as happened a...
★★★☆☆ It was the 1965 publication of Stonehenge Decoded by Gerald Hawkins that piqued this reviewer’s conscious interest in megaliths. The potential significance of Stonehenge and other structures noted therein opened my eyes, and...
★★★★☆ “When a radical change is needed, many argue that it is impossible for individual actions to incite it, so it’s futile for anyone to try. This is exactly the opposite of the truth;...
★★★★☆ The yellow-breasted chat had just arrived on my birding stomping grounds, calling out incessantly in an interesting conversation I wasn’t invited to, when I flipped to a chapter dedicated to this species in...
★★★☆☆ Tom Coyne’s goal was to play “107 practice rounds,” the number of golf courses in Scotland, in 56 days in hopes of refining his game so that he could qualify for the Open....
★★★★☆ Fifty years ago, Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch blasted onto the nation’s movie screens with the impact of a Gatling gun mowing down an advancing army. The cowboy movie (and really, all movie-making)...
