“Sliding over these days, peeling shadows off my heart. / My whole life is a slice of onion held to the light.” In this debut poetry collection, the voice cascades from knowing to wonder and back again. The poet uses poetry as a tool... Read More

“This book is about love-not the soft, sentimental kind but the strong, spirit-transforming kind,” writes the author. The distinction is important, since the word “love” can signify different things to different people. To... Read More

During his colorful and controversial career as a defender of radical causes, the author viewed the law as a “method of control created by a socioeconomic system determined … to perpetuate itself.” Martin Luther King, Malcolm X,... Read More

One senses a dimly lit bar and zealous English teacher sitting amid his flock, making Perseus and Andromeda, Mary Ure and Robert Shaw as familiar as Pamela and Tommy Lee, and much more human. In this, Rudman’s fourth collection of... Read More

Recent research shows that elephants and humans have many things in common, and readers of this book will see clearly how much the two species are alike. The author, a gifted wildlife photographer, followed a group of orphaned baby... Read More

Engelhard, author of the best-seller Indecent Proposal, writes an anecdotal memoir relating the physical and emotional dislocation of his childhood due to the Holocaust and his family’s escape from Nazi-occupied France. Rather than... Read More

A conscientious objector, translator Balaban; an eighteenth century concubine and poet, Ho Xuân Huong; and a linguist from New York University, Dr. Ngô Thanh Nhàn; have created a book rife with firsts. Like many groundbreaking,... Read More

“I know that when the storm of Lenin and Stalin came / to outrage itself, poet masses left and Akhmatova / alone remained,” writes Braggs in the title poem of his latest collection. He is in the house where the great Russian poet... Read More