In 1968, a group of new mothers started a book club in a suburb of Detroit. Fifty-three years and more than 630 books later, ten of the Lit Group’s twelve original members continue to meet monthly. Now in their eighties,…
Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, a “portrait of the artist as a shy, awkward Mexican-American girl,” follows its indomitable protagonist from kindergarten to 12th grade. Angie defines resilience, yet Donna Miscolta manages to empower her heroine without downplaying the violence…
Don Draper did so many despicable things during the past season of Mad Men, that not even all the glimpses of his troubled childhood could get me to sympathize. But while watching the last scene of the season finale, in…