Books

Revisiting Things Fall Apart: A Fiftieth-Year Retrospective

In 1958 Chinua Achebe, a young African broadcast journalist, published his first novel, Things Fall Apart, a tender portrait of a "strong man" in an Ibo village in Nigeria whose orderly world irreparably unravels when Christian missionaries arrive.  Since its publication, Achebe's novel has sold over

One Chimp's Life: A Gripping Tale

You don't have to be an animal lover like the East Chatham author Elizabeth Hess to find her new book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human absorbing.  You don't even have to care much about the merits of the scientific experiment that brought Nim

The Librarian's List

Who: Erica Joncyk Where: The David M. Hunt Memorial Library in Falls Village, CT, which opened on Main Street in 1891. Originally built as a private school, it functioned as a combination grammar school and library for many years. It holds a popular sale of slightly tattered new books on