The town of Bridges, the fictional Pacific Northwest setting of Utterly Heartless, is a bizarre place. The winter rains fall so heavily that streets become canals; entire murders of crows descend upon the town regularly; intoxi...
Happy (belated) 237th Birthday, America! You don’t look a day over 150. Aside from all the fireworks and stars & stripes bikinis, I can’t think of a better way to start off this most patriotic of months than wit...
Spitfire American novelist Lionel Shriver isn’t known for her subtlety or political correctness. Instead she cannily skewers the major issues that are at the forefront – or that have been relegated to the collective back of the...