From the bayous of Louisiana to subtropical Florida, the Deep South is vitally alive and full of surprises for the unprepared, some of them potentially deadly. Irene Brady, the writer and illustrator behind "The Southern Swamp Explorer"... Read More

Told from the difficult and rarely employed second-person point of view, Vizenor’s story is one of altar boy abuse on a Native American reservation at the hands of the Catholic clergy. The narrator, a retired journalist and former... Read More

Like surfing, reading this book will make you happy. Kreeft, philosophy professor at Boston College and author of The Philosophy of Jesus and Socratic Logic, provides ten outstanding reasons to start surfing from ten illustrious sages,... Read More

“A good editorial cartoonist can take an issue and sway public opinion or at least make an arguable point,” says the editor in this sometimes poignant, frequently biting collection that captures the all-too-frequent failings of the... Read More

Take a futuristic world and mix in two parts honorable samurai, a dash of a Western motif, and two reliable albeit eccentric sidekicks, and pray it will come out to be anything akin to this graphic novel. In the “far future,”... Read More

Pay $189 for a pair of jeans that look like they’ve been attacked by a pit bull, run over by a tractor-trailer, and dropped in a puddle of bleach? Not with this do-it-yourself guide to turning bland everyday jeans into the trendiest... Read More

The phenomenon of multiculturalism is often depicted as an outgrowth of the high-tech age, in which the Internet, global market economy, and air travel have radically changed the movement of art, knowledge, and news. Yet one of... Read More

Many authorities label any artwork that has a religious subject “sacred art,” but Titus Burckhardt is different. He posits that art is essentially form, and if the form is borrowed from some type of profane art, the spiritual vision... Read More