With the barrage of electronic forms of pastime, society's 500 year-old obsession with the game of cards only recently seemed on the edge of extinction … To the surprise of this author, and others who write about card games, the rumors turn out not to be true. In fact, the card game described in Moran's new book, and other card games with longer pedigrees described in other places, prove that a resurgence of interest in spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs, decked out on an old-fashioned card table, is hitting the streets in 2007. Read »


