Searching for hope in a post-technological future Celebrated science fiction writer Clifford D. Simak’s novel A Heritage of Stars was ...

More clever than smart Although far from a household name these days, Fantômas was all the rage 100 years ago, and he enjoyed popularit...

To compute or not to compute? Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, published in 1958, is the third novel in the Danny Dunn series by J...

Searching for a reason to believe Barabbas, a novel by Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist, was published in 1950. The following year Lagerk...

Lanny Budd’s Spanish Civil War Wide is the Gate, published in 1943, is the fourth novel in Upton Sinclair’s Lanny Budd series. In the ...

Long-winded but worthwhile George Eliot is best known for her novels of English country life, but this book set in Renaissance Florence...

A great source for “medium-old” books (and more) As I’ve done once before and hope to do more of in the future, I'm devoting today’s p...