Book Club Dept. I’ve been on a science fiction binge since Boskone in February. After meeting Allan Steele there I ran out and bought Coyote, which was very enjoyable. I also finally got to Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin and (with a pause to savor Alice Munro’s latest collection of short stories,… Continue reading
Michael Yon: As I consider this whole manufactured controversy about my intentions in saying, then and now, that Iraq is in a civil war, and whether or not I used the right definition, and even, ridiculous as it seems, whether I have been hijacked by forces that oppose this war, what strikes me as most… Continue reading
This made for a very Happy Easter: The Rev. Charles J. Murphy is returning to St. Francis Xavier Church in Weymouth now that the archdiocese has cleared him of sexual abuse charges. ‘‘It was a nightmare for him,’’ Boston attorney Timothy O’Neill, who represented the Rev. Murphy in a lawsuit, said yesterday. ‘‘He has had… Continue reading
What better way to commemorate Good Friday than by a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Dream of the Rood….
For those of you dreading you’ll have to read DaVinci Code before the over-hyped movie comes out (or even after), help is on the way! Rev. John Wauck humorously summarizes the plot—so you won’t have to.