“Schools are an ancient artifact that can’t last much longer,” concludes Roger Schank in his proposal of an alternative to buildings and the subject-based curriculum that defines schools. Instead, he envisions online courses... Read More

One of the fascinating notions about any style magazine—particularly a fashion icon like Vogue—is that there is the glamorous, glossy-paged issue itself, and then there is the magazine’s impact upon the reader. Throughout its... Read More

In this gripping novel of historical fiction, the author explores an infrequently examined aspect of the Holocaust: what happened to the money, jewelry, and other assets stolen from the Jews by the Nazis? How complicit were the banks of... Read More

Every challenging travel expedition necessitates a host of mundane housekeeping tasks. While most first-person accounts include episodes of pain and suffering, fatigue, and even boredom, the more ordinary aspects may be given short... Read More

Love at first sight? It’s never out of fashion, according to this collection of lovely, quirky drawings recording many such hopeful moments. Celebrated are mostly young strangers in and around New York City, whose paths crossed or even... Read More

Fans of the prolific author/illustrator Edward Gorey will delight in Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, which chronicles the personal correspondence between the pair as they collaborated on three... Read More

If you thought embroidery was just for hankies and little girls’ church shirts, you will quickly dispose of such nonsense when you peek into the colorful pages of Hoopla. Part how-to, part investigative exploration and all inspired,... Read More

There’s a German proverb that translates, you can’t turn a billy goat into a gardener. In English, we might say don’t trust the cat to watch the cream or don’t send the fox to guard the henhouse. But after spending some time in... Read More