Each bird’s nest, like a great work of beauty and design, tells its own story. Reflecting the remarkable variations found in their builders’ plumage, nests are the perfect balance of form and function. These delicate constructions... Read More

The image of a wild mustang galloping across the plains has become an American icon symbolizing freedom, independence, and endurance, all the qualities on which our country was founded. Adopting one of those wild horses into a domestic... Read More

Winner of the Zerilli-Marimò prize, "From the Land of the Moon" is a young woman’s lovely and poignant account of a family, and a grandmother’s search for love. Place is central to this novel—the author’s native Sardinia, with... Read More

Suppose, through your own doing, such as giving a “copper a smack in the gob,” you find yourself doing “a six month holiday at the Queen’s expense” in an Australian prison and another prisoner makes an improper advance.... Read More

"As If We Were Prey" is part of Wayne State University’s “Made in Michigan” book series, of which Michael Delp is a co-editor. It’s a small book in stature, comprising eight short stories in 120 pages, but communicates a larger... Read More

Widely acknowledged as the greatest adventure strip ever created, Prince Valiant is also arguably the best comic strip in that medium’s history. However, reprint collections have failed to truly capture the beauty and consummate... Read More

Heather McHugh’s reviews are swarmed by words like “clever,” “play,” and “language games.” She puns, she’s wry, and she foregrounds seriousness in the title of her latest collection. Still the wit, McHugh startles with a... Read More

Like Loving Backwards is a collection of seven short stories by Cheo Tyehimba a successful journalist who has written for magazines including Time Entertainment Weekly People and Oprah. His stories are written in the tradition of... Read More