W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
Eighteen years ago today, the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the surface of the moon, and for the first time a human stepped onto another world. That grand achievement was followed by five other manned lunar landings, the last of them in December 1972....
Alvin Greenberg. Time Lapse. Tupelo, 2003. 308 pp. $22.95. For Walter Job, the protagonist of Alvin Greenberg's darkly comic novel Time Lapse, "death is an easy thing to manage. Life is another matter." Walter, an accomplished professor of modern literature, leads a double...
