The sheer size of the baby boom generation has always forced social change; now that baby boomers are moving into their senior years, the dynamics of their aging will affect all of us. September University: Summoning Passion for an... Read More

Lexy Durant was drop-dead gorgeous, ambitious, and successful. She inspired envy in those she met, making the fortunate person who stood next to her feel woefully inadequate. Her sense of style was the epitome of perfection, and those... Read More

Mohammed couldn’t wait to visit New York City. He dreamed of the Statue of Liberty at night and during the day he fantasized about the grand city and all that he would do and see there. Plans were underway for the eighth grader to take... Read More

One of Marcel’s front legs was wrapped, and Barteau wondered what had happened to him. When the groom was questioned, it was discovered that there was no injury; the trainer was afraid to work with the horse, so he told everyone Marcel... Read More

In the story “Words and Rags,” writes one editor, “Our dialect has the sounds of intimacy, the sounds of an enclosed hermetically sealed world.” In this collection of twenty-one essays, the seal to the Italian-American experience... Read More

For those who recall the paranoia, the unyielding sense of foreboding, and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation that defined life during Cold War, there was no greater fictional antidote than Ian Fleming’s James Bond. While the... Read More

The author, who is a philosopher, historian, and retired teacher of Celtic studies at the Sorbonne, has made a lifes study of the Celts and written numerous books on the subject, including The Druids, Women of the Celts, and Merlin. He... Read More

The year is 1870. The backdrops are the Franco-Prussian War and the nascent Westernization of Japan. These worlds are linked by a piece of paper used to wrap a handmade Japanese ceramic bowl exported to France; the wrapping is actually... Read More