Alice Walker, too restless to retire, has a great deal more to say in meditations, essays, and letters. In her latest collection of short prose, we learn that Alice Walker once looked forward to her retirement with an almost voracious... Read More

A murder in the Wisconsin north woods is the focus of "The Hunters", but it is not a murder mystery. From the start, author John Bolger reveals that Paul is planning to kill Craig in his deer blind, making the murder appear to be a freak... Read More

The tiny West Indies island of Tobago is a “political football” that changed hands forty times in four centuries. According to one of its former governors, Tobago fell into a state of “squalor and depravity,” so much so that he... Read More

“Wind and water and shoreline can’t be changed. We have to work with the elements as they are.” So writes longtime Buddhist practitioner and social worker Hill Anderson in "Stoneport", a sophisticated novel that explores the... Read More

In the conclusion to My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop, Emily St. John Mandel says, “Things happen in independent bookstores that don’t happen in the other places where we buy books.”... Read More

A protagonist’s soul is revealed only through the expertise of a skilled writer capable of capturing every thought, mood, and emotion. In "So L.A.", Bridget Hoida creates a poignant exploration of a grief-stricken artist’s mind as... Read More

In different parts of the world, at close to the same time, members of the secretive and benevolent Cloister of Akhenaten are suddenly dying of what at first seem to be natural causes. As the death count rises, surviving members and... Read More

More than 27 million people today in the United States—roughly 11 percent of the population—are living with heart disease, says the US Centers for Disease Control. It’s the nation’s No. 1 killer, resulting in approximately... Read More