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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a large book delicately woven by a metaphor: drop of water falls into the river, whose particles are borne to the sky and fall again to the earth as…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud is a fictional drama based on the author’s own multi-generational family, covering seven decades of family history and moving from Salonica in Greece, to French (colonial) Algeria to France, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was a scorcher of a day in the summer of 1975, more than a year before the presidential election to determine whether Jerry Ford could withstand public contempt for his decision to pardon Richard Nixon and win…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Polls show that two thirds of Americans are mentally exhausted and taking a break from a steady diet of news consumption. Count me among them, at least aspirationally. Since the election, mainstream newspapers, cable and network news have bled readers…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congratulations to our do-little 118th Congress, which, after weeks of inactivity and chaos, has finally passed funding to keep the U.S. government open until March. It’s no surprise that only 21 percent of the American people approve of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Former Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti is dead at 101. One of my first interviews with him, shown to the left, with my six-year-old son Daniel Arons looking on, was in 1973 at a local political…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe by historians John Guy and Julia Fox (husband and wife team)is a deeply researched tome larded with the tumultuous history of the reigns of Henry VIII,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee is a well-researched account of France from the reign of Napoleon III through the end of his empire, the Franco-Prussian War he had provoked, the radical socialist…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Sorry, folks, but I just don’t buy the argument that it was fine for Joe Biden to have pardoned son Hunter not just for the tax evasion and gun charges for which he was convicted but for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. My stuffing is made. If the weather permits, we’ll be together with family for the Thanksgiving holiday. Friends and acquaintances keep reaching out, asking “what are we going to do?” They’re not referring to how best to…
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