Personal stories, hard facts, and illuminative illustrations each contribute to this engaging examination of our microbial overlords. Our oldest ancestors are not hominids, fish with legs, or even cockroaches. No, all terrestrial life... Read More

For those with an appetite for atypical horror fare, Bailey’s range is satisfyingly wide. Bram Stoker Award nominee Michael Bailey has an ax to grind with horror fiction. In the disjointed "Inkblots and Blood Spots", his latest... Read More

We live in the age of stand-up paddleboards and kayaks the color of molten lava. Rare now to see the graceful reach and pull of two paddlers guiding their canoe along a lazy stretch of an American river, drifting for a moment then... Read More

Lori Horvitz may have started out as a shy Jewish girl from Long Island who loved her magic tricks and hated her frizzy hair, but her memoir-style reflections, "The Girls of Usually", prove that she has come a long way since then, thanks... Read More

This erudite story of one woman’s struggle to find purpose in a life derailed by self-hatred is a moving psychological tale. Howard Richmond delivers a novelization of one of the more challenging cases in his psychiatry career, wherein... Read More

This ambitious collection of Americana-themed essays blends travel, personal anecdote, history, and science. The pieces in "The World Is on Fire", Joni Tevis’s second work of creative nonfiction, tread a fine line between essays and... Read More

Countering the voices, inner and outer, that demand women’s silence, fiction writers imagine new possibilities into being. The works of a substantial number of Western women writers reveal a major theme: the journey of the... Read More

While the weird situations and characters are humorous and entertaining, the themes beneath its surface offer depth and insight. Surely Dash’s run of bad luck must be winding down. He’s lost his job and fiancée and finds himself... Read More