Arguably the most definitive of the biographies of Siddhartha Gotama, this book is also a fine introduction to the Pali Canon. The Theravadin tradition of Buddhism, whose scriptures are preserved in the Pali Canon, is considered by... Read More

Mark Twain once said, “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” The essays in this collection help the writer of creative nonfiction know how to use the facts and effectively infuse a piece with the... Read More

Novels awash in the arcane archeology of lost medieval manuscripts have become their own sub-genre, with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose being the keystone tome of the art of book-lore display. For bibliophiles (the ideal readers),... Read More

Deák’s experience as a writer and picture-researcher in her prize-winning Picturing America (1988) stands her in good stead to this sparkling appraisal of New York. An elegant combination of impressive illustration (including many... Read More

In the late 1920s, a Blackfoot Indian chief from Montana caused a sensation in New York society’s upper-echelon. The dark, ruggedly handsome man who spoke flawless English was a celebrity in his own right—West Point man, World War I... Read More

With a Master’s degree in nutrition, six books and many magazine and newspaper articles to her credit, Calbom’s is a competent voice for juicing for health. Calbom begins with the story of her personal odyssey to health through... Read More

She was a twenty-two year old Fulbright scholar from New York fleeing her immigrant Italian family’s claustrophobic love, he was a thirty-eight year old Catholic priest from the city’s Irish tenements of Hell’s Kitchen, researching... Read More

When playwright Richard Charteris and his much younger lover, “Bless,” arrive in the staid English country village of Bellingford, their hope is for a life of domestic bliss. Very much in love, the two men have no idea that their... Read More