A witty critic once said that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. Here is a book arguing that shock therapy is better than it looks. Professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an authority on... Read More

The Greek word for drugs is pharmakon which means both remedy and poison. That double meaning for substances that can harm and cure, give pleasure and pain, has haunted man’s history with drugs. A Brief History of Drugs is a shortened... Read More

Different Voices, Walter Febrick’s novella, is a California dream—the kind of dream that you wake up from, urgent to tell someone what happened, say “…and then…,” and fall back asleep till you’ve dreamed the next thread of... Read More

Known as the grande dame among the pantheon of Florida writers, famous author of The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) and missed sorely by all familiar with her and her work as a passionate environmentalist and writer, Douglas died this... Read More

Parents who have determined that their child should attend preschool have some homework of their own to do before completing an enrollment form. Locating a program that meets the needs of the parents and the child can be a major chore,... Read More

Dick Wimmer’s stroke of genius in his fifth work is resurrecting his irreverently bawdy hero and world-renowned painter, Seamus Boyne (Irish Wine, 1989). Boyne’s antics of faking his own death to escape the burdens of fame backfire... Read More

In just 175 pages, Judy Goldstein Botello (Adventures with Kids in San Diego, Sunbelt) traces the gestation and birth of her 15-year love affair with the peoples and cultures along the Mexican border near her San Diego home. Botello’s... Read More

At first glance, The House By the Sea appears to be yet another book detailing the horrors of the Holocaust. Just as often as not, first glances can be deceiving, which is the case with this, Fromer’s third book. The House By The Sea... Read More