War-torn London, 1943, Lily (Friel), a vivacious English girl, falls in love with Charlie, a Canadian soldier. Impulsively, they marry, and Lily becomes pregnant before Charlie (Aden Young,...

Much of the richness of our language and moral education is owed to a Greek slave who was executed over two thousand years ago. Literally hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are woven into...

Webster Filmore Goodhue has found temporary work as one of the mop-up crew for the Los Angeles County crime division. In other words, he cleans up grisly crime scenes for the cops. When the daughter...

Set in Contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most...

James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the poorer classes of Dublin in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland." From the first story, in...

George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane. He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but also to “improve”...

Frank Machianno, an affable, funny, middle-aged Italian with a love of people and life, has his own life turned upside down when his past revisits him in the form of a wise-assed kid who knows that...