Werewolves of Fairfield: New Moody novel goes pre-9-11 THE DIVINERS By Rick Moody Little, Brown, 567pp., $25.95 DOWSE JONES "Thing is, while I was reading the script, I did have that sensation that I could start eating steak tartar out of a...

by Robert Stackhouse Robert Stackhouse was born in Bronxville, NY, on July 31,1942. He received his BA degree from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 1965 and his MA degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1967. He specializes in...

In summer, New York can feel like hell: too hot, crowded with grumps, oppressive. But our city does hide some secret oases, public green spaces that are like secret gardens, secluded and intimate. Take the shady lawn at the Cooper Hewitt, with its immaculate perennial...

There were a few skeptics when tourism officials and business leaders first approached dozens of golf courses along the Sierra's eastern front about pooling their resources to help promote the area as a golfing destination.Why would anyone want to help their competitors?Nearly a decade later,...

The Diviners is the most comprehensive [of all the Manawaka novels] in its quest and the most complicated in its structure. Morag's journey is epic in its striving and cosmological in its scope. She seeks to understand her relation to all life, all time and eternity, and the resolution she finally comes to has both sacred and secular meanings for her. In all of her Manawaka novels, Margaret Laurence has worked with concepts of time. Hagar, Rachel, and Stacey are all enslaved by quantitative time, the...