Born in 1908, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh used his camera and a keenly sensitive eye to chronicle the epic known as the twentieth century. Karsh’s portraits of some of the most celebrated men and women of recent times... Read More

Described as historical fiction, but easily mistaken for memoir, the second volume of Jean Ayer’s Tales of Chinkapin Creek is an absolute delight. Names and locations have been changed, and the first-person narrator represents the... Read More

Eldon Spady’s "The No-Drama Manager" is a breath of fresh air because most books written for business managers have become increasingly formulaic. They frequently seem to be comprised of generalized tips written by expert consultants... Read More

The beauty of short stories is in what they leave out; there is greater imperative for every word to count, to cut to the heart of the matter. L. Annette Binder’s "Rise" is a wondrous debut collection of her stories, any one of which... Read More

"Coping with Madness" is “not for the slavishly politically correct or over squeamish,” warns author Philip Fletcher in this audacious and gritty book. Readers brave enough to pardon the narrator’s homophobic remarks and... Read More

Mona Houghton’s debut consists of two novellas that delve into the chaotic lives of characters, their desperation, and the resulting messiness. Although the novella is not a form that is read as popularly as a novel, it can be just as... Read More

On December 19, 2011, a Nashville newspaper carried a story about the construction of an all-faiths chapel at the nearby Fort Campbell military base that will cost taxpayers $8.4 million. A smaller article in the same issue noted that a... Read More

It is July and we are a miraculous age. With this, Caitlin Horrocks’s debut offering of stories takes off in a blaze of promise and hope, full of startling clarity and writing that pulls the reader further and further into the book... Read More