Fireworks

FireworksBy: Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Series: Vintage Contemporaries Hollis Clayton is in trouble. His wife has decamped for the summer, leaving him to pursue his increasingly overwhelming compulsions: drinking; spying on neighbors; worrying about the fate of an abducted local girl; avoiding his editor, who is on the verge of rejecting his new collection of stories; and confronting as obliquely as possible the recent death of his young son. Meanwhile, he is

and equal pay

On telling the difference between Burgundy and Bordeaux: “If it’s red

By: Anne Carson     The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders

She tries out a new style--the twist--and now everyone wants to know her whisker secrets

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While medical advances have given us the gift of extending life

A Seussian spin on a conventional fairy tale

This proves more difficult when he encounters his first love

who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store

the grifter has lived a former life

) might be wearing off right when he needs his smarts most