Jay S. Levy is a social worker with over twenty years of experience reaching out to the increasing number of homeless people living in our nation. With a degree in social work from Columbia University and years of experience working with... Read More

Thérèse Soukar Chehade’s novel, Loom, is an entire story formed within a pause. Snow falls in a small Vermont town, and the members of the Zaydan family come to a halt while their cousin from Lebanon is delayed in New York. What... Read More

Recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors remains a crucial project, partly because many people and even some entire villages live only in the memories of one or two people. Some survivors, reticent about sharing their... Read More

No matter what topic poets may choose to write about, their poems are rooted in the intuitions and emotions of their inner selves. Readers identify with some poems more than others, because they find their own internal intimations... Read More

The defining moment of a young boy’s life is usually not associated with a teenage sister except perhaps when her horribly disabling accident cripples a boy’s ability to retain an unburdened outlook of the world. Jon Pineda turns a... Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Caro Barrone is devastated when her best friend Marcie is killed. Caro’s husband Zach has been dead for five years, and her daughter Abby lives in London. Caro and Marcie had planned to spend the summer in a... Read More

The trade route that connected the East with the West was not a single road but a network of land and sea paths: the Yellow River to the Ganges, Athens to Beijing, the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. Its travelers were as varied as the... Read More

According to William J. Clark Jr. and William J. Clark Sr., a father—son team, “It is a challenging walk God calls us to, but we can experience a peace within that is unknown to those who aren’t always sure where to step along the... Read More