Sentence of Dave

While I can't pretend that I care about Canada ( though I tried my darndest)  I at least harbor some emotion towards our nice neighbors ...

I am often suspicious that I have no idea how the world works, which is one of the reasons I like to read: I feel as though I'm filling ...

I had forgotten how much I hate traditional bowling, but a recent trip to Carolier Lanes reminded me: I hate sticking my fingers in the hole...

My friend John's band played Friday night at Teddy's Restaurant in Cranbury, and though they sounded great, I was very concerned for...

I invited my children to join me at work on Thursday, but they weren't interested-- and my lack of children disappointed and mildly offe...

I haven't done any research, but I think it might be better if I eat all the Easter candy in one sitting, rather than parceling it out o...

The first season of Luther  is fantastic, but be warned: the trope in most police shows is that things get very tense, but the police get ...

According to James Surowiecki in this week's New Yorker,  the miracle drug Sovaldi will cure hepatitis C, but a single dose costs one th...

Jennifer Senior's book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood  is entertaining, engaging, and well-researched, but I have ...

Terri Frana-- a forty-four year old Florida mom who was mauled by a black bear while getting bikes out of the garage for her kids-- needs...

Sassy New York Post reporter Susannah Cahalan tackles the most difficult story of her young career (even more difficult then when she we...

Jean Hanff Korelitz's new novel You Should Have Known  is taut, claustrophobic and gripping:   a marriage unravels, a mystery unfolds...

Two fish are swimming along in a school of their brethren and a shark appears and opens its toothy jaws, as if to engulf them all, and the o...

We are going fishing in the Pine Barrens and our goal is to catch a pickerel . . . but once we catch it, then what do we do?

Luther is a very dark but excellent British police show on Netflix; Idris Elba (who infamously played Stringer Bell in The Wire) is a d...

One month ago, I took a day off to take my kids snowboarding -- and I believed I had earned this day off, as I hadn't taken a sick day a...

Cinco de Mayo in New Brunswick may look like a bit of a dive, but they make my ultimate dream burrito . . .  and it's on the menu, s...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers is the bleak and sordid account of a heroin deal gone sour, and it is set against the backdrop of two dec...

Shane Carruth, writer and director of the nearly indecipherable time travel flick Primer , has now done himself one better and made a com...

If you're sick and your wife is working on a twenty page graduate school research paper, and you just need your two boys to go upstairs,...