Asia
Verse Inspired
by a Continent
Startling, observant, tidy.
The tradition of poetic expression in Asia~specifically Japan and China~has a distinct clarity. Asian poets have a way of conveying their culture's moral and...
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May/June 2001
November/December 2007
Aharon Appelfeld is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. In A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem (Toby Press, 978-1-59264-197-0, translated by Aloma Halter) Appelfeld leaves behind the themes of horror...
March/April 2006
The publication of three masterful, lucid, and manageable accounts make the great dramas of the rise, hegemony, and fall of Rome and the Empire significantly less daunting: the how of the rise and dominance, and the why and the ...
May/June 2006
In certain circles, it is de rigueur to mutter about the proliferation of MFA creative writing programs. Skeptics contend that the inevitable result will be a culture of formulaic “workshop” poetry—perhaps well crafted,...
September/October 2006
In 1907 “Braque broke the mould,” writes Alex Danchev in his first full-length biography, Georges Braque: A Life (Arcade Publishing, 1-55970-743-7). In this book the author successfully brings to life the artist who “left...
November/December 2006
Terrorist rebellions, in all their configurations, constitute the primary warfare threats facing the international community. This was especially the case following 9/11, when al Qaeda demonstrated that it had world-class ambitions to inflict...
September/October 2007
December 23, 1977. It’s two days before Christmas and my soon-to-be mother’s contractions are getting closer together. Lying on her parents’ couch, she calls my father at the bookstore where he is the manager. Come home, she...
January/February 2008
Religion is an unpredictable factor that makes international policy-making a nerve-wracking process, the more so if it moves toward militancy. For Islam, it’s more than just political maneuvering or strategic positioning; it’s an...
September/October 2000
A Juggernaut to be
Reckoned With
A Snapshot of the Independent Publishing Industry
The thousands of new titles we can expect from empowered e-book and Internet
book-at-a-time publishers~on
top of the 50,000 already...
November/December 2006
For some, the compulsion to eat cannot be overcome by a doctor’s orders or their own willpower. In Eating the Shadow: A Memoir of Loss and Recovery (Fenn Books, 0-9773951-0-3), C.L. Watson describes her brother’s lifelong...