Month: May 2025

  • Book Review: Inside the Britannic by Simon Mills

    Book Review: Inside the Britannic by Simon Mills

    Britannic—Titanic’s little sister. The third Olympic-class liner, she suffered the same fate as her older sibling and sank near the Greek island of Kea on November 21, 1916. There was a (highly fictionalized) TV movie in 2000, but Britannic has still been largely overshadowed by Titanic in popular culture. But ship nerds (I use that…

  • Poem: An Elegy for Lucy on the 110th Anniversary

    Poem: An Elegy for Lucy on the 110th Anniversary

    On the 110th anniversary of the Lusitania’s sinking, I wrote an elegy for the ship and those who died in the disaster.

  • Book Review: Finding the Titanic by Dalton Rains

    Book Review: Finding the Titanic by Dalton Rains

    Growing up, I was obsessed with the Titanic. I think most ship enthusiasts are. I remember buying books like Exploring the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic at the Scholastic Book Fair or ordering from the Scholastic Book Club and pouring over them for hours. There’s certainly something to…