More travelogue than travel guide, Lesbian Travels: A Literary Companion is a smart collection of stories from lesbians on the road. Each piece provides good, short, literate reading for that cross-town bus trip or airport layover. The... Read More

In 1996 a quiet, unnoticed revolution hit the American music industry. For the first time women artists outsold male artists. This may seem like a small thing but since women artists had held only about 30 percent of sales historically... Read More

By sharing with readers his personal quest of the mind-body-spirit connection, Santos, a practitioner of Oriental medicine, draws us into exciting health and self-development implications. The catchy title is the second book by Santos,... Read More

Jenny Diski just wants to be alone. And who can blame her? First her dad deserts her (several times, actually), then her mom, then her sanity. She gets her sanity back, grows up, marries, has a kid and … her husband leaves her! So it... Read More

Leaving a successful academic life in the United States for a deeper understanding of life, John Robbins decides to embark on a journey through Asia. His search ends in Tibet, where he spends three years as a Buddhist monk. Sharing the... Read More

Whether the subject of divorce is broached suddenly or emerges as an inevitable conclusion to an ongoing situation, the parties involved are never quite prepared for all that will come next. There are volumes of books on the subject of... Read More

It is a very pleasant and all-to-rare occasion when a reviewer receives, unsolicited and unexpected, in its modest bound galley a truly exceptional book. Such was the case when Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s Namako arrived at my home in the... Read More