Ten Terrific Thrillers Featuring Missing Persons by Lisa Regan   I love a good abduction story—or even a book where someone has gone mysteriously missing. Some books begin with the disappearance and other books begin with the reemergence of the person who has vanished. Either way, the questions remain the same: where were they? Who […]

Of the Plague and Playwrights by Kathryn Harkup   There have been a lot of comparisons recently between the current pandemic and the plagues of the past, particularly to William Shakespeare and his apparent ability to knock out a masterpiece like King Lear during quarantine. While there are many similarities between the epidemics of bubonic plague during the […]

8 Places to Travel Through Books This Quarantine Season by Lindsey Rogers With most of us in self-isolation or limited to work and back, travel is rare. Books, though, always transport me to new places and make me see places I’ve been in a new way. These picks are engrossing enough to distract from always […]