Bruce Schneier’s newest book explores how security without trust is destined to fail Follow @rogeragrimes I’ve always considered anything written by Bruce Schneier to be part of my ongoing education about IT security. Like Warren Buffet of the financial world, Schneier has a special talent for simplifying complex IT concepts by stripping away the fat. [...]

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Today, Hartford Books Examiner offers an advance review of Guilt by Degrees (Mulholland Books, $25.99) by Marcia Clark. The follow-up to Clark’s highly acclaimed fiction debut, Guilt by Association (2011), Degrees again features thirty-something Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Rachel Knight, who is a member of the elite Special Trials Unit – a position that [...]

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How many people who are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness can look at it as a positive experience? It takes a pretty remarkable individual to see past the obvious and find the goodness, beauty and meaning in all the pain, suffering and unrelenting tests of will and faith. In his new book, Cancer: It’s a [...]

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I’ve long been partial to E.M. Forster’s formulation that the role of fiction — or one of them, anyway — is to suggest a “buzz of implication,” a flavor of time and place more nuanced than history allows. That’s because fiction is an art of narrative, of emotion, defined by the singular movements of individuals [...]

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In the process of navigating our economic landscape, we are perpetually encountering risks. These risks not only present themselves from the standpoint of the market and the economy but also on a much larger scale from a social, political, and personal perspective as well. How do we learn to manage risks going forward? We are [...]

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