Anguishing in old age, this vivid character documents his fragmented memory of a childhood in Cuba and an art career in rural America. “I know that memories wrinkle and spoil even more than the flesh—and I know they lie.” So... Read More

To understand Julian Hoffman’s goals in "The Small Heart of Things", you must consider two ideas from his preface: 1) “Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be,” in the words of Sigurd... Read More

These stories are quickly absorbed but not quickly forgotten; each contains moments that leave one nodding in recognition, while opening windows on a singular city. Maggi Kerr Peirce presents vignettes of life in Belfast before sectarian... Read More

Tom Smart has embarked on a noble mission to decipher Chambers’ intellectual and deeply meaningful work about art, life, and spiritual philosophy. Jack Chambers’ Red and Green is a peculiar work of art criticism that attempts to... Read More

Turns of phrase and hints of unique characters will linger in the mind after reading this unusually compelling collection of fragmented short stories. Sitting down with Philip Gaber’s Epic Sloth: Tales of the Long Crawl can be a... Read More

With few exceptions, we the spiritual take our piety seriously enough to put in a little effort for the cause. Seemingly, we must do more than merely believe in the divine, so each of us develops an individual portfolio of... Read More

Lena Corwin’s Brooklyn art studio is home to dozens of different crafting classes taught by several professional designers with an assortment of skill sets. The diversity of activities presented in "Made by Hand" opens up possibilities... Read More

Well-developed characters and relationships between preteens makes for an exciting coming-of-age fantasy adventure. Twelve and a half is a precarious age, on the cusp of adolescence, and for most kids, it’s still a time of finding... Read More