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The best things to see, eat and do when you’re visiting this alluring waterfront town.
Baltimore is more than just crabcakes and the birthplace of HBO’s The Wire. Though it isn’t Maryland’s...
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In MWF Seeking BFF, one woman learns that making new friends doesn’t have to be as hard as it seems.
Making friends as an adult — sans sandbox, camp bunk or classroom — can be a challenge. Journalist...
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By Alice Hoffman |
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop |
It’s not easy to make characters living in 70 C.E., fighting the Romans on Masada, breathe on the page, but Alice Hoffman’s masterpiece succeeds. Two women...
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By Wayne Hoffman |
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop |
Benji Steiner straddles the middle – neither observant nor secular, neither independent nor reliant upon his parents, neither closeted nor in a relationship with...
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By Bill Vlasic |
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop |
New York Times Detroit bureau chief Bill Vlasic’s strong, fly-on-the-wall account of the recent dire days of Detroit’s automotive industry is an eye-opener. ...
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Discover Google's full potential with these hidden products
We all know Google as a cyclopean search engine, but that's only the beginning of the Silicon Valley behemoth's capabilities. The multimedia conglomerate...
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By Michael Ondaatje |
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop |
Deposited at the dock by his family, 11-year-old Michael begins a journey across the Indian Ocean from Sri Lanka to England aboard the Oronsay, a microcosm of high...
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By Chuck Klosterman |
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop |
In essayist Chuck Klosterman’s second novel, a self-aggrandizing but otherwise meek man known as Y_____ develops the ability to turn invisible and uses the power...
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At lunch with the Detroit bureau chiefs for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
Neal Boudette, the Detroit bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal for the past four years, recently sat down for lunch with...
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By Erin Morgenstern |
Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop |
It’s the late 19th century and the circus is coming to town, bringing with it a sublime and theatrical fantasy. But Le Cirque des Rêves is no ordinary...
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