by Bob Wake | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
“The power of human desire is matched only by our inability to express those desires,” explains Matthew Garth, the teenage narrator of Larry Watson’s American Boy. Set in the fictional small town of Willow Falls, Minnesota in 1962, Watson’s sharply observed novel...
by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Margot Peters is an accomplished biographer whose many books include Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontë; The House of Barrymore; Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; May Sarton: Biography; Bernard Shaw and the Actresses; and Summers: A True...
by Greg Hettmansberger | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
“Four rational people conversing” was how the brilliant writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described to a friend in 1829 the genre of the string quartet. By this time in history, the particular ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello had been established for...
by Victoria Statz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Have you ever wanted to ask a scientist a pressing question about current scientific and technological research? Or maybe you are interested in these research subjects but find it difficult to navigate the dense language and challenging concepts on your own? There is...
by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Make it part of your 2012 New Year’s resolution to host an Aldo Leopold Weekend in your city or town. Regarded by many as the most influential conservation thinker of the twentieth century, Leopold was a prolific writer and naturalist, known for planting thousands of...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
One morning a few weeks ago, on the way to the office of my friend and colleague John Huston, I stopped at a local café to get us a few cups of java to go. Pulling in to the café parking lot, I spotted a small, black object lying near the lot entrance. Someone must...
