It was with a heavy heart that I read, in the  New York Times, of Judith  Appelbaum’s death on July 25th at the age of 78. At the same tim...

Joan Baum is a recovering academic from the City University of New York, who spent 25 years teaching literature and writing. Joan has a long...

My reading habit was mostly self-inflicted, though heavily influenced by my father's collection of boyhood books, notably the works ...

Every published author will tell you that a great copy editor is a gift from God, and have horror stories about those more in Satan’s camp...

These are times when optimism is about as easy to sustain as the suspension of disbelief watching a superhero movie. I consume way too much...

This past November ninth Judy and I did what we've been doing for decades now: celebrating my birthday by visiting my son Marc and his ...

My grandparents all came from Russia. Some had religious ties, others were atheists, but all were pacifists. When it came down to my father...