. a blogumn by Amy Brown NPR has been waking me the past few weeks with dire warnings about the swine flu.  Their reportage (and a discussion on – the shame of it, readers – the conservative talk station KFI AM 640 by Bryan Suits regarding Los Angeles’s free H1N1 vaccine) made me think of [...]

. a blogumn by Amy Brown This week, in anticipation of a night out at the theater, I picked up the Dover Thrift Edition of Euripides’ Medea.  It’s difficult to form expectations of a piece first produced in 431 BC.  I’d kind of imagined that Euripides would have created an early version of a morality [...]

Wowzers! I’m not saying that I should have gotten my act together and blogged about Interracial Relationships a long time ago, but we did have our best week since I liveblogged my labor and delivery back in June. Go here to check out this week’s topic in our Month of Minefields and read the comments, [...]

Should I be worried that my boyfriend recommended to me three books about serial killers? Either way, here are my reviews.

I recently discovered Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” the best description of office life I’ve ever read.