In a thriving northern city in late summer, a recently returned traveler feels unwell. Soon, after presenting some extremely worrisome symptoms, he is dead. People all do their business the same. Winter comes and they crawl inside. More are dying,…
In 1959, a newcomer to San Francisco with a few unpublished novels in his suitcase found a job working the night shift at a mental hospital. He got to know the patients there, including World War II veterans suffering from…
Twenty-seven centuries ago, a poem known to us as The Odyssey began to materialize. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, fought four or five centuries earlier, it tells of the eventful return home of a little Greek king…