Maren Longbella

A theme in Clare Pooley's novels — community — emerged in "The Authenticity Project" and has continued, in "Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting" and now "How to Age Disgracefully." Here, several older Britons with little in common get to know one another because they've joined a club at a community center. A tale full of "likable, fun-loving characters ... easy to root for," a reviewer writes.

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Review: A bunch of Londoners learn ‘How to Age Disgracefully’ in joining a rambunctious club

July 16, 2024 at 11:01 a.m.

A theme in Clare Pooley's novels — community — emerged in "The Authenticity Project" and has continued, in "Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting" and now "How to Age Disgracefully." Here,...

In an archival, black and white photo, patients in a large room at Crownsville hospital.

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Book review: ‘Madness’ shows that patients were forced to build their own 1900s asylum

February 1, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.

Author examines how racism prescribed cruelty at Maryland's notorious Crownsville facility. Beatings and isolation were the tools of control in wards where every kind of patient, from children to the...

Don’t miss: A memoir by an ADHD sufferer, ‘A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention’

May 6, 2022 at 3:45 p.m.

In the U.K., journalist and maternal rights advocate Rebecca Schiller's memoir is known as "Earthed," much less self-help-y than the U.S. title, "A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention," and one...

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