THE ART OF THE DETECTIVE STORY by Steve Steinbock Two weeks back I spent a lot of column space telling you very little about R. Austin Freeman and his 1923 essay, “The Art of the Detective Story.” Today I’ll tell you a little bit more. But first, reading Freeman put me in an interesting verbialogical […]

GOING TO THE DARK SIDE by Deborah Elliott-Upton My friend recently said, “You only see the good in people.” I almost smiled, but caught myself in time. Our relationship is new and neither of us have spent enough time together to really know each other’s true personality. To me, she’s the one who consistently believes […]

A VINTAGE DRAM by Rob Lopresti When I was a freshman in college I took an introduction to philosophy course entitled Freedom and Individuality. We read, as I recall some Plato, Nietzsche, B. F. Skinner, and a bunch of others. All heady stuff, but it was the last book that threw me for a loop. […]