LET’S start with a confession: I am a historian and I have never read Gilgamesh. I didn’t read it in graduate school. I didn’t read it in college. I didn’t even read an excerpt in […]
Review: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police
IF roses, all roses, suddenly disappeared, would your memory of them fade away as if they had never existed? This is the premise of Yoko Ogawa’s compelling dystopian novel, The Memory Police. On an unnamed […]
Review: Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
Embroiled in a bloody civil war since 2011, Syria has long been subject to coups, repressive regimes, and state sanctioned surveillance.* Death Is Hard Work, the latest novel from Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, is infused with […]
The R&P Review: Our Mission and a Renewed Focus
The business’s social media accounts have been relatively quiet for the past month or so. The majority of this inactivity was due to behind-the-scenes work geared towards transforming our website from a portal for general […]
Advocating for Worcester’s Businesses and Communities in the 21st-Century
What is the cost of online commerce?