Comment On Ideas Calendar: May 26-june 1

The playwright Nicky Silver has adjusted Kurt Vonnegut’s 1993 play “Make Up Your Mind” so it can be staged in Boston.    

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, “Americanah,” the main characters find the race matters where ever they go.    

A quick look at recent releases: "Imperial Dreams," by Tim Gallagher, and "The Stranger," by Camilla Läckberg.

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery and Sgt. Flea Marley investigate strange occurrences at a psychiatric hospital and the disappearance of a footballer's wife.Since introducing Detective Inspector Jack Caffery 14 years ago in "Birdman," Mo Hayder has written some of the grisliest crime fiction in recent memory. Caffery's cases in London and, later, in Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Team, have included the murder and bizarre postmortem autopsies of women by a surgically trained serial killer, abducted children and sadistic African rituals. That's enough evil to keep readers awake long after the cases are solved.

The Writer's Life: The smart, accessible 'Who Owns the Future?' peers critically at the online state of affairs and finds it out of balance.Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions.