“Getting a pizza delivered is particularly challenging,” writes the author. “When I tell them my name there is always a pause, a moment of disbelief.” Her aunt was Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Roosevelt; her father... Read More

For formalists, this author comes as a gift, a poet fully in charge of her forms, subtle and controlled. She embraces the villanelle, Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, the measured quatrain, rhymed couplets. The book seems a... Read More

The author’s field notes from December 30, 1982 at the National Wildlife Refuge in Texas read: “full moon rising up through mist; damp, spooky; howling bobcats; SEOWs (Short-Eared Owls) like giant moths w/languorous, floppy-winged... Read More

When Frances Hill looks at the Bush administration’s response to the terrorist attacks of 2001, she sees striking parallels to the witch hysteria of 1692. In both instances simple-minded religious and nationalistic fervor predominated... Read More

The author was smart enough to realize early on that a career in sports is short and uncertain. Nevertheless, he happily contradicts that notion as he reminisces in this book about his sixty-five-year association with the national... Read More

When Assyrian strongman Sennacherib led his forces on an invasion of Judah in the year 701, a flank attack by Africans from Egypt disrupted his assault. As reported in the books Isaiah and Kings in the Bible, the attack caused concern... Read More

If a child’s role in life is to test parents, what should parents do about it? If that testing takes the form of tantrums and blatant disobedience, how can a parent regain control? The author takes on these tough challenges and more in... Read More

This exceptional retelling is worth reading for one reason: it doesn’t merely tell the story of the “star-cross’d lovers”; it raises the curtain on the story of their story, too. The book opens as a play would. In lieu of a... Read More