
Besides Versailles, there was another palace that witnessed a flight of fancy--one original flight, and then tens of thousands of impregnated others. Their sum total? Perhaps "the French Revolution." The Palais-Royal stands on the right bank, just north of the Louvre,...


William J. Cobb's Book Sense 2006 Pick showcases a fishing town on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Goodnight is slowly being swallowed by an increasingly lifeless sea. Shrimpers and fishermen, with nothing to catch, watch their vessels rot in the stagnant brine. And then a gigantic...