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at Penn gets a shout-out in "Turing's Cathedral."

Dawn of a computing future

Deciding which came first, the ChickenPad or the EggApp, is guaranteed to freeze up any operating system. The more interesting question is: How did our world of hardware and software magically appear out of the ether?

Freed from doomsday rhetoric
Mother knows best, like it or not
Two lost souls share mysterious pasts in 'The Dark Rose'

A poet in splendid translation: What a state of affairs! Two excellent translated collections of poetry by Italian poet Eugenio Montale. One is by William Arrowsmith, the other by Jonathan Galassi. Galassi, a fine poet and devoted Montale scholar, concentrates on the three books of Montale's central period: Cut
Many stories, overlapping: Like the desert in which it is set, Hari Kunzru's Gods Without Men is a novel that is simultaneously simple and complex, clear and ambiguous.
Chick Wit: Content and at peace, just being: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

If you're worried about Spunky, you needn't be. I got this. And since I'm in a post-op life-lessons mood, I learned another one, this time from a cat.
The Jane Eyre story, post-WWII: In The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey recasts Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a riveting story of self-actualization for contemporary readers.
Inside Eisenhower's complex interior war room: The United States' three most defining wars were alike in at least one respect: Each produced a military hero who went on to the presidency.
'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank' explores tensions between religious and secular: Give Nathan Englander credit for chutzpah. The title of his new book of short fiction, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, draws on two iconic antecedents: the young diarist who died at Bergen-Belsen and the Raymond Carver story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
In Watergate, what were the women up to?: Even the biggest secrets have secrets lurking behind them. And, Thomas Mallon suggests in his absorbing new novel Watergate, America's biggest and dirtiest revealed secret was no exception.
A bungled chance at talks with Iran 'without precondition': In his first campaign for president, Barack Obama promised to break with American policy of three decades and talk directly, "without precondition," to leaders of Iran, a country George W. Bush had shunned as part of an international "axis of evil."
Prize French prose with, of all things, laughs: In 2010, Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory won the Prix Goncourt, France's prize for "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year."
What dreams may come: There are not many fiction writers who can do what Dan Chaon can do. Many write both short stories and novels (by choice if not by necessity, since novels are in much greater demand, by both publishers and readers, than collections of stories). Because the forms are not so much siblings as they are distant cousins, few wri
A masterwork framed in black: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed portrait of the Viennese socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer, he could not have known that the sophisticated world inhabited by the sitter's wealthy Jewish family would be destroyed by the Nazi takeover of the country in 1938.
Elmore Leonard casts his spell: It probably qualifies as ironic: Elmore Leonard, who has never made a secret of his disdain for screen adaptations of his work, writing a novel based on a TV show, Justified, that is built around one of his fictional characters.

Workshop With Author Rachel Hawkins

Friday, March 16 • 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM • Harleysville Books • 674 Main St., Harleysville, PA

Ben Taylor: Apocalypse on the Set

Thursday, March 29 • 7:00 PM • Barnes & Noble - Rittenhouse Square • 1805 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA

Lisa Scottoline: Come Home

Tuesday, April 10 • 12:00 PM • Barnes & Noble - Rittenhouse Square • 1805 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA

Young Adults Night

Saturday, March 17 • 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM • Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts • 7924 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA

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