Inventing Edison

November 21: “Who would have guessed that the announcement of the phonograph’s invention would be sufficient to propel him in a matter of a few days from obscurity into the firmament above?”  

Jonathan Swift

The author of Gulliver’s Travels was a wit, a ladies’ man, a champion of the oppressed — and a mystery.  

Reading Lessing: Writers Reflect

“No one else does this like her; the pulling apart of what is going on within a human mind in the space of a few seconds, the fearless, truthful portrayal of it all.”  — Writers discuss the legacy of Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing’s...

By the Rivers of the Water

The complex and fascinating biography of pious mid-19th century newlyweds Jane and John Leighton Wilson – American Southerners who thrived as Liberian missionaries, developed anti-slavery views, then returned to find their native Georgia at the height of the...