Literature

Walter Mosley resurrects his famous private eye, Easy Rawlins, in newest book

2013-06-08 00:00:00

Sherlock Holmes un-kicked the bucket way back in 1894. More than a century later, even though Harry Potter ends up on the wrong side of a killing curse, he un-bites the dust. In "Game of Thrones," Beric Dondarrion has un-bought the farm at least six...

A St. Mary's College education prepares the whole student for life

2013-06-03 12:00:00

Anne D. Neal's recent commentary deriding St. Mary's College of Maryland unfairly paints the school with the same broad brush her organization has used to criticize colleges nationwide ("Cautionary campus tale," May 30). Ms. Neal's group, the American...

The value of a St. Mary's education

2013-06-06 06:00:00

This letter is in response to Anne Neal's recent commentary, "Cautionary campus tale," (May 30). As a 2008 St. Mary's alumna, I, like many of my fellow alumni, took great umbrage to the broad strokes Ms. Neal attempts to use in painting our alma mater...

Joy Umansky, baker

2013-05-23 15:06:30

Joy Umansky, chief baker at the Dorothea's Breads business she co-owned for a decade, died May 11 at Gilchrist Hospice Care of complications from a fractured hip. She was 85 and lived in Pikesville. Born Margaret Joy Ward-Walker in Birmingham, England,...

Former Southampton principal named Harford schools interim superintendent

2013-05-14 13:47:50

Barbara P. Canavan, a 40-year veteran of Harford County Public Schools, has been named interim superintendent to replace for one year Dr. Robert Tomback, who is leaving after his term is up June 30. Canavan spent more than half her time with the school...

English and thermodynamics

2013-05-11 07:48:00

As a journalist, I gravitate toward the lurid. That's just how we roll. If some post-adolescent crank tries to set up a "white student union" at Towson University, he is guaranteed ink. If some crackpot explains that George W. Bush was behind the...

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor

2013-05-11 11:53:01

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....

Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman visits Baltimore

2013-05-04 00:00:00

Plunging into a novel by James Kelman is like diving head-first into a chilly lake. It's a shock to your system at first, and a bit disorienting, but the trick is to keep moving. Once your muscles get warmed up and you get your bearings, the...

Jessica Anya Blau's third novel updates 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

2013-05-25 00:00:00

Talk about tumbling down the rabbit hole. Jessica Anya Blau is the Baltimore author who memorably mined her experience growing up in a freewheeling bohemian family in her first two novels, "The Year of Naked Swim Parties" and "Drinking Closer to Home."...

What's novel is not the story, but how it's told

2013-05-06 03:00:00

When it comes to books, I guess you could call me a voracious listener. I have been commuting about an hour to and from work for more than 30 years, and during that time I bet I've listened to a couple of thousand books. First on tape, now on compact...

Brush up on your Spanish for the next Columbia Pro Cantare concert

2013-05-01 13:41:00

Columbia Pro Cantare thematically goes abroad for its concert of "Music of Spain and Latin America" on Saturday, May 4, at 8 p.m. at the Jim Rouse Theater at Wilde Lake. Not only will some of this music be unfamiliar to many listeners, but it's also new...

Korean War veterans donate $1,000 to Harford Co. Public Library

2013-04-23 13:23:00

A group of Korean War veterans presented a $1,000 donation to the Harford County Public Library Thursday in an effort to support library programs to commemorate this year's 60th anniversary of the end of the war. Six members of Maryland Chapter 33 of...

US actress Angelina Jolie (L) and US actor Brad Pitt (unseen) arrive for the German premiere of the film "World War Z" at the Cinestar movie theater in Berlin on June 4, 2013.

2013-06-11 10:56:45

David Iserson and his young adult novel "Firecracker."

2013-05-30 12:40:35

English pirate William Dampier wrote a widely influential memoir after being recruited in Hampton for a 5-year-long voyage of piracy, adventure and exploration.

2013-05-30 07:55:00