In 2006, Michael J. Ortiz published Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare, which supposedly was found within the walls of a house in Stratford, England. Like many good works of art, Swan Town, purported to be a 16th-century diary of Shakespeare’s eldest daughter, has since been exposed as a sham, an entirely fictitious […]
Literature
League of American Atheists Publishes Homer Without Gods
One very serious problem with many of the greatest works of literature is that there is always an implicit, and usually an explicit, openness to the supernatural. This is a very serious problem indeed, if, as may be the case, you are an atheist. In order to correct this deficiency, the League of American Atheists […]
Audio Books Review
You might think the title of this review is a mistake. But it’s not. We’re not reviewing an audio book, but rather the whole concept of the audio book. This is, therefore, a review of every audio book, past, present, and future, actual and potential, whether conveyed by means of a CD, magnetic cassette tape, […]