A graphic retelling of the iconic novel. It hits all the highlights of Richard Adams’ narrative, and my one wish is that it will drive readers to the full novel, if only so they can enjoy the deep richness of the humor in the latter “Ees finish Meester Voundvort, ya?”“Ya,” replied Hazel. as well as…
Read more Who can think of a car as anything other than a “hrududu” ever again?
The General again ropes Bruno into the world of spies, including Dular, a Russian who can pass for Alaskan (grin), with the requisite beautiful women in peril (all of whom fall in love with Bruno, of course) and a shoot-em-up at the end. Balzac is okay, thank goodness. The description of the St. Denis Saturday…
Man, I never knew there was this much data in the world. Or that it could be organized into that many graphs, or that there were that many different kinds of graphs. As to the story Bump tells–it turns out that I am part of a gigantic pig that has been swallowed whole by a…
I remember seeing a sign outside a VFW post on Fireweed Lane in Anchorage which read: Freedom is not free. It was the first time I’d encountered that phrase and for years I thought it meant that only soldiers paid in blood and sacrifice for our freedom. No. American citizens have been holding America’s feet…
Read more How it comes out rests, as it always has, in our own hands.
Marty Baron is the Forest Gump of modern day journalism. He was with the Miami Herald during the 2000 election, with the Boston Globe during 9/11 and spearheaded the Globe‘s investigation of the Catholic Church’s coverup of pedofile priests, a story that inspired coverage of the same story to wherever in the world the Catholic Church had a footprint. As…
Read more We should not start our work by imagining we have the answers; we need to seek them out.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Ireland, enough to have what I consider to be extended family there. I’ve spent a lot of time listening to stories (Irishmen tell stories as well as any Bush pilot or Alaska state trooper, which is saying something). The thing about Ireland is best exemplified by the Faulker…
Brother Cadfael is a monk at the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury and the title character in the series of novels by Ellis Peters. By virtue of the fact that unlike most monks he was a crusader and a ship’s captain for forty years before joining the monastery, and, additionally, became…
Margaret Atwood’s brain just doesn’t work like anyone else’s, to the everlasting benefit of all her readers. In this selection of short stories she explores, variously– *herself communing with George Orwell through a snoring medium (a little heartbreaking, I found this one) *an alien member of an intergalactic-crises aid package who is also an out…
Read more But as you say, half an oblong wheat-flour product is better than none.
In the early twenties the Osage Nation becomes rich on the oil buried beneath their land in Osage County, Oklahoma, and then white men begin marrying Osages and killing them and all their family members so they could run off with the cash. The Osage call it the Reign of Terror, those years between 1920…
Read more In case you’d like to read the book after you see the film.
I thought I’d read all of Zane Grey’s novels when I was a kid until I stumbled across this title in an antique store in Edmonds, Washington, a while back. His plots are much of a muchness, cowboy heroes riding to the rescue of virtuous heiresses in peril from greedy, amoral bad guys, and a…
