Ten-year-old Sasha, whose Russian immigrant mother cleans offices, routinely comes home from school to an empty, triple-locked apartment. On the day before her project about the... Read More

A dozen children of different ages sit on benches in a sunlit room in The Country School, Winslow Homer’s 1871 painting. The teacher looks at the three boys to her right; like... Read More

Larry Millett continues his Sherlock Holmes and amateur detective Shadwell Rafferty series with this novel, set in the early twentieth century in St. Louis, Missouri. Well-known... Read More

The generations that came of age in the 1960s and 1970s had a wide variety of publications, both fan-based and professional, in which to follow the activities of their favorite... Read More

During the forty-some years during which LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights have been the topic of public debate, Americans have grown more accepting and... Read More

The extent of most Americans’ knowledge of Swedish food probably consists of Swedish meatballs and a vague conception of a smörgàsbord. Swedish meatballs with gravy are... Read More

Recently, the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul began developing a light rail system that would shuttle commuters, Twins baseball fans, and Mall of America shoppers across... Read More

Recent years have seen no shortage of books offering remedies for the perceived woes of the Islamic world. Most of these—at least the ones receiving attention in the... Read More

Anime and manga began as a world apart. Removed from Western culture and the “real world,” saturated with Japanese exotisme, they were, nonetheless, often part of American... Read More

While writers since Hesiod have employed insect imagery to make their metaphors crawl, no writer in the entomological tradition has as much “street cred” as Franz Kafka,... Read More

French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan challenged Anna Freud and the leadership of the International Psychoanalytic Association and was evicted from the IPA more than fifty years... Read More

This is an unforgettable book. It is a memoir of dignity, beauty and life. It begins with death. Author Kent Meyers’ father dies in the midst of raising a large family and... Read More