Power brings a man many luxuries, Robert Harris’ Tiro writes, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. Tiro, who invented shorthand, was the slave-secretary to the Roman senator Cicero, and in Harris’ novel Imperium, he is the narrator. In this novel, the first of a series about Cicero, Tiro, an aging...
I arrived in Onion Creek in December 1981, the day a snowstorm dumped a foot-deep blanket across the landscape. My parents had purchased Onion Creek Square only a few months before, and this was my first time seeing it. I had just graduated from college, and I needed a place to stay as I...
I have a personal policy that everyone I tell about it resents. If I read the book, and especially if I loved it, I won’t see the movie. I’m not sure why people resent this, except that it becomes the grounds for rejecting their movie recommendations. But I have no doubt that it’s the...
