Review: THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF by John Coates

Reviewed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Mary Doria Russell, June 17, 2012: Let me begin by saying what this book isn’t. It isn’t an easy beach read and it isn’t about dogs. The evocative title The Hour Between Dog and Wolf refers to the medieval...

When nothing else matters

Hello. My name is Mary, and I am a recovering anthropologist. It’s been over 20 years since I worried about tenure, but I suppose I will always be an anthropologist. As Ray Bucko, my dearest Jesuit friend, once told me, “Having a Ph.D. is a permanent condition –...