A line Maud Newton shared from John Banville’s The Sea has the compact force of a poem: “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” Banville, whose full name is William John Banville, is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, and adapter of dramas who...
You may have learned that an estuary is where a river meets the sea, but a reference librarian asks whether she should eschew estuary as a word for the confluence of freshwater bodies. Martha and Grant tide her over with some more information. This...
