Claire Hopley

July 19, 2019
What Hemingway did in Venice
Lovers of Ernest Hemingway's work will thrill to the paperback release of “Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and his Last Muse.” (Its first printing...
April 8, 2019
Murder by the Book
For many weeks of 1840 London's newspapers and magazines throbbed with news about the murder of Lord William Russell and the subsequent execution of the man found guilty of...
January 31, 2019
Why Human Beings Are Both Goat and Lion
Many of us think that on the whole human beings are pretty nice: Usually friendly and helpful, even self-sacrificing. In contrast, others point to our frequent cruelty, violence and...