Memoirists often offer the lessons of their lives for the benefit of others, but few combine autobiography and advice as seamlessly as Stephen Goldstein in "When My Mother No Longer Knew My Name". Goldstein dedicated over ten years to... Read More

Earlier in his life, author Curt Remington was like the many people who feel daunted by meditation. So he’s in a good position to reassure his readers right from the start, saying, “[Y]ou do not have to sit still and keep your mind... Read More

“There was something about Thailand: It sucked me in,” Michael Schemmann writes of his love affair with the country and, later, a woman. Schemmann once spent a blissful ten days in Chiang Mai during a stopover from Tokyo to... Read More

Too old to be considered children, too young to have a strong handle on adulthood, the characters that populate Stalking Bret Easton Ellis are self-destructive, depressed, depressing, self-indulgent, and mostly blind to their own damage.... Read More

In Scroogenomics, Ebenezer progeny and Ehrenkranz Professor and Chair of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania applies the “dismal science” to the joyous season of heralding angels and... Read More

For over thirty-five years Alma Bond thrived in her successful practice as a psychoanalyst in New York. When a speeding yellow cab hit her one afternoon in Central Park tossing her in the air like a rag doll and sending her into a coma... Read More

The name of Ahmad Shamlu (1925—2000), widely recognized as one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth century, will be new to most American readers. A prolific writer and translator who helped to introduce many world authors to... Read More

After an absence of forty-two years languages professor A. Colin Wright returned for a visit to Sardinia. His nostalgic novel "Sardinian Silver" he says in its afterword “evokes a Sardinia that no longer exists but which had a quality... Read More