Like the “Okies” immortalized in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, the impoverished Oklahoma farmers in William Cunningham’s 1935 novel understand that unchecked capitalism leaves the rich as bloated as the flies feasting on the... Read More

Jagdish Kulkarni, a physician and psychiatrist, offers insight, understanding, and ways to cope in his book Invisible Woman: I to I: Invisibility to Invincibility. The book, just one part of the Invisible Woman brand, is joined by a Web... Read More

Oscar Wilde said, “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.” He might have been describing the strange adventures of Theodore Bellefontaine, the owner of a mail-order business who... Read More

Sixteen-year-old Evie doesn’t mind that she’s the oldest paper carrier by three years, and the only girl, too. She knows that every Sunday morning as she’s delivering papers in the trendy Hokepe Woods neighborhood, she’ll... Read More

While the idea of imperial domination, as opposed to democracy, is not one with which many Americans are comfortable, the US, in fact, has always been an empire. That is, it has always proceeded toward expansion as an empire for liberty.... Read More

No, Don’t Call Me a Crook! is not a posthumous book by Richard Nixon. It is instead a memoir, circa the 1920s, by a Glaswegian marine engineer named Bob Moore. He is, by his own admission, a thief, a liar, a con man, and certainly a... Read More

What is a Cheesemonger? A person who buys and sells cheese? A wielder of knives and lugger of wheels? An aproned liaison between farm flies and foodies? Come in the Worker’s Only entrance of the Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in San... Read More

Introspectives looking for nature writing in the vein of Rachel Carson or Annie Dillard will appreciate "Wild Comfort", not only for its sensual imagery, but also for its informative and encouraging tone. Moore, a professor of philosophy... Read More