Easter is upon us, bringing its usual associates: egg hunts, little girls in frilly white dresses, Peeps, and, of course, the Easter Bunny, hop-hop-hopping along. A Google image search for this confusing figure produces an array of unsettling illustrations and photos, including a manic-eyed bipedal rabbit with teeth that extend over the lower half of its […]
For any reader worth her salt, the road to courtship is paved with books. Books you loan, books you borrow, shelves of books you scan for red flags and common ground the first time you’re invited in. Romantic histories can be told as a series of literary stepping stones, from the cute boy in preschool […]