Dedication and sacrifice bring former academic rivals together in this medical drama set in an 1891 Washington, DC, hospital. "With Every Breath", by Elizabeth Camden, reveals the terrifying impact of tuberculosis during a time when... Read More

You want Jersey tough? Step aside, Gov. Chris Christie. Meet Deb Ebenstein. In the summer of 1993, she was sixteen with great legs, curly brown hair, and smarts enough not to smoke—the “whole package,” she doesn’t mind saying.... Read More

If a movie were made of Halima Alaiyan’s dramatic life of dislocation, disappointment, and transformation, it would challenge credulity. In 1948, when she was barely a year old, her village, Ibdis in Palestine, was destroyed by Israeli... Read More

Once past the in-your-face, nude cover picture of Peter Orlovsky and the poet Allen Ginsberg embracing, taken by none other than Richard Avedon, a reader is provided with an inside view of the gentler and more serious aspects of the Beat... Read More

It could be alleged—no insult intended—that Tim Grove, who has worked in the most prestigious history museums in the United State, is a rewriter of history. Take the case of Betsy Ross. Every school kid knows she sewed the first... Read More

What with the damning convolutions of ignorance, disingenuousness, and angst that shadow so much of the discussion of race in the United States, it is heartening when hope glimmers, as it does when Clifton Taulbert unpacks his defensive... Read More

In his brief, thoughtful essays in "Something There Is", David Sayre, an engineer who has led advances in communication and energy technologies for thirty years, speaks about the encounters he has had with people all over the world who... Read More

“Spirit is always at work in dreams,” writes Lori Joan Swick, PhD, and human history is filled with dreamers who have encountered the sacred with results that have shaped our world. Both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Gospels... Read More