Nick Owchar is executive director of advancement communications at Claremont Graduate University; he blogs regularly at Call of the Siren.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Staying Nimble with a Diet of Jokes and a Pinch of Stephen Hawking: A Conversation with Leonard Mlodinow
Nick Owchar talks to Leonard Mlodinow, physicist and the author of five best-selling books, including "The Grand Design," co-authored by Stephen Hawking....
A Man of Little Consequence
On “Six Four” by Hideo Yokoyama....
Knowing Things
Youval Shimoni’s “A Room” — a dense, stubborn, daunting, exhilarating masterpiece....
Dark and Dreary … and Real
"The Dead Duke" is ideal reading, like ghost and detective stories, for the days of the year when evening arrives early and temperatures are dropping....
Decline and Fall
Joseph Nye, the former dean at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, says the American century isn't over yet....
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Stabbing a man to death isn’t easy....
