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

The cruel and inhumane tactics employed by the infamous Christian Brothers in Ireland are recounted in this gripping and emotional firsthand account from one of the victims. Author Benjamin Franklin relates his harrowing life story... Read More

A key member of the Florida governor’s inner circle undertakes a bevy of self-serving illegal acts launching a chain of events which causes suffering of innocents discord and even death across an ocean and over many years. The trouble... Read More

Not sixty days after September 11 2001 a new threat has struck the United States and it couldn’t be farther from New York City. A low-yield nuclear device has been detonated on Lake Superior fifteen miles from the obscure town of... Read More

Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Bernstein is confused. Everyone is saying that her favorite uncle, Bradford, died of a “heart attack brought on by his pneumonia-weakened lungs.” But that doesn’t make sense to Phoebe. Bradford “was strong... Read More