“I recently made a foray to the upstairs library in our old family farm, where generations have left their favorite books behind. I picked up ‘The Enemies of Women’ by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, printed in 1920, just after World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. Interestingly, the latter isn’t mentioned in the book. The […]

Mark Aldridge’s ‘Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ offers clues – and evidence – to prove the case.

“My perfect pandemic book is ‘Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind,’ by Kermit Pattison. It is popular science/natural history at its finest. Cantankerous and feuding paleoanthropologists work in east Africa with the most fragile and hard-to-find evidence imaginable: ancient fossils that contain clues to human evolution. Pattinson is […]