Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
The year is 1911. The place is a boardinghouse in the Pittsburgh Hill District run by Seth Holly,…
The Appointment
Say you are a passenger on a bus you have ridden many times before. You are going to…
Three Days in Damascus: A Memoir
In the extreme, a trip can become an existential, life-altering experience that changes your sense of yourself and the world around you. Such was the kind of trip that Kim Schultz—writer, actor, playwright—took in 2009 to Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
On the face of it, Muriel Barbery’s international bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, is a sentimental tale about a…