Like so many others, I was transfixed this past week by the awe-inspiring Artemis II mission to circle the moon, and by the perilous re-entry and dramatic splashdown that brought our astronauts safely back to Earth. Even before Artemis blasted off, I had been thinking about how the moon is emblematic of so many things: madness, danger, melancholy, longing, romance and more. I had just finished reading a book with "moon" in the title, though I'm saving that discussion for anot

I almost did a double take when I read that the new film adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is being released this weekend to coincide with Valentine's Day. Seriously? This book is many things — brilliant, intense and unforgettable — but a date-night romance it is not. At least not in any traditional sense. For many years, I put off reading this book, but I finally tackled it during the pandemic when I had more time to read. I don't know what took me so long.

I am ringing in the new year by launching my book blog — a little corner of the Internet to call my own. A quick introduction: I’ve been a passionate reader for my entire life. One of my earliest recollections is memorizing The Cat in the Hat after countless bedtime readings and then pretending to read it aloud to my family. In school, I always loved reading and writing, so I majored in English and went on to have a two-decade career as a journalist. These days, I work on t