

Literature and Poetry
CultureWatch, April 2009
Lords of Finance, apart from being a wonderful lesson in international monetary economics and finance, is a page turner. No Room for Doubt
will appeal especially to our readers as it shows how one remarkable
senior woman who overcomes the odds and achi… more »
Wasting Words
Joan L. Cannon writes: "We have more words than most other modern languages. Of course we don’t
need to know them all and couldn’t use them all (though I think Nabokov
may have tried). Yet, that richness makes maximum precision almost
always poss… more »
Book Review: Women Making America
Jo Freeman reviews Women Making America,
covering women’s history from the Revolution to the present day. Chock
full of colorful images, it swoops high and low, sometimes mapping the
forest and sometimes looking at a tree. more »
CultureWatch, March 2009
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry should appeal to all readers of literary fiction; Roseanne McNulty's story becomes an alternative, secret, history of Ireland. Henry Alford
is witty and literate, but somehow he has allowed his talents to be
diff… more »