Block Island TimesOpinion

The inescapable feeling of unspoiled charm...

H.G. Wells, in 1895, published a short novel, “The Time Machine,” in which a character, staring at the coals of a burning ...
The Spokesman-Review

H.G. Wells wanted to change the world – a new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions

Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the ...
National Review

Francis Ford Coppola Ransacks an H. G. Wells Classic

Readers responding to my review of Megalopolis declared an unexpected hunger for cinema and truth — desires that contemporary Hollywood routinely fails to satisfy. Megalopolis itself demonstrates the ...
The Washington Post

H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions

Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the ...