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While the title of Eleanor Brown’s “The Weird Sisters” instantly evokes pictures of the three haggard crones from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,”...
I’ve never enjoyed reading myths, perhaps because they’re just that — myth — and meant for people to pass on...
“Charmed Life” is the first installment in beloved fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones’s Chrestomanci series, which marries the British tradition...
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he...
“The Wind is not a River,” a World War II novel by Brian Payton, is centered on a journalist and...
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I once began reading Barbara Kingsolver’s signature novel, “The Poisonwood Bible,” but I abandoned it after just a few pages....
Half of a yellow sun proudly rises in the center of the Republic of Biafra’s red, black and green-striped flag....