US NAVY F/A-18E Super Hornets conduct a fly-by of South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore in 2006. (photo credit: ANTHONY DOBSON-US NAVY/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS) T he Question is “Why?” Stanford M. Adlestein: A Jewish Life in South Dakota by Eric St...
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ANALYSIS/OPINION: Henry Maxwell[1] was named after his mother’s older brother, a chaplain killed in World War I. “On his mother’s dresser, in a silver frame that captured fingerprints, surrounded by other, less interesting relatives from before Henry[2...
OCTOBER 24, 2019Updated 15 hours ago Kirsten Slade Kirsten Slade has an enthusiasm for comics, roller derby, small scruffy dogs and native plants. An award-winning illustrator, she uses a variety of traditional and digital media techniques to tell...
John Le Carré’s new novel begins with a game of badminton, and ends with the sentence, “I had wanted to tell him I was a decent man, but it was too late.” Nevertheless that’s what he is. Nat, the narrator, is a not quite 50, not quite on the shelf off...
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but perhaps the title is a gauge. The title of Saeed Jones’ new memoir How We Fight For Our Lives is a promise, or so it seems, of how we might hope to overcome life’s sufferings. But the book offers no formula for ...
In the highly readable book ‘The Meaning of Pain’, Nick Potter reaches out to the subset of chronic pain sufferers for whom other treatments have failed to help. By illustrating the connections between the body’s physiological pain mechanisms, changes ...