(Note: contains spoilers) It’s a hypothetical scenario we’ve all indulged in at least once: what if there was a medical procedure to make you smarter? A scientific breakthrough in neurosurgery makes it possible, and it’s been performed on a white mouse, Algernon, who can find its way through a maze faster than a person can….
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a historic jewel of a town located twenty minutes north of the waterfall. I was there exploring, this final week of August as summer started to shed leaves over fields and the weather sort of cleaned and sharpened itself into a pre-autumn chill. It was a town of farmer’s markets, tiny chapels, and…
American Pastoral by Philip Roth sucks you into a whorl of extremist Vietnam War propaganda, which comes inexplicably from the calmest part of the United States: a maple-and-oak backyard in Rimrock, New Jersey. There lives our blond-haired, blue-eyed businessman, Seymour “Swede” Levov, his beautiful wife Dawn, and their daughter Merry. Their whole suburban life is…