Essays

As we near the end of 2017, our country continues to be embroiled in this year’s sexual harassment scandals from “How stupid could he have been to grope the air in front of a sleeping woman’s breasts?” to “How can a pedophile run for office and ...

Florence Osmund writes layered novels centered on characters trying to find home in a literal and figurative sense. The novels explore how integral family is to each character and how family can consist of people not related by blood. Her books are ...

When I was fourteen or fifteen, a group of classmates and I read four books within a few months: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies. Our young minds were seeking, exploring, and discovering the questions that have haunted ...

Sometimes unread books on a bookshelf are as good as a diary entry to jog the memory. You look at the spine of a novel you bought twenty years ago at the Strand bookstore in New York. You were with so and so that day. You hadn’t seen them for a long ...

My mother taught me to read simple sentences by the time I was three. And from then on I was required to read a book a week, any book but it had to be challenging, until about the 7th grade. When I started getting homework, my mother stopped giving ...