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Venice: Pure City

A gondola ride through the wonders of "La Serenissima," equal parts love letter and historical tour.

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May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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Let the Dark Flower Blossom

Twins Eloise and Sheldon had a great idea for a story, until it was stolen.  The deadly lengths writers may go to in order to achieve their original vision are creepily detailed in Norah Labiner’s new novel.

Happy Money

“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of the oldest clichés around, but what if it’s all about how you use it? Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton give compelling advice on how to get the most pleasure out of your piggy bank.

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia.