The terms “peak oil” and “climate change” have been a part of the national mindset for a few years, but they have been examined in isolation from one another. Books such as James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency and Al... Read More

This collection alleges answers to age-old questions, such as that implied by the title: Do human beings dream in color? Unfortunately, though the phrasing is sometimes capable and the eye for detail strong, the poems as answers suffer... Read More

Suppose one individual had the power to make any citizen disappear indefinitely, could keep them from challenging their accusers, warehouse them without charges, torture or even kill them without repercussions. Then imagine that by... Read More

“Hoofs pounding, the runaways veered to miss a pickup coming down the driveway,” the author writes. This near disaster is caused by twelve-year-old Ben Lucas’s “Great Idea”—to lasso a ground squirrel with an orange slipknot.... Read More

In a speech for a Brooklyn city council position politician Bill Trammel speculates on the potential inevitability of deporting prospective terrorists. Simultaneously riots break out in a Muslim marketplace. As violence escalates events... Read More

Experts in the field of grief therapy believe that the loss of a child is the most difficult tragedy that a person can experience. It is not the way it is supposed to happen in the natural course of events that a mother mourn a child.... Read More

As part of the Uruguayan generation of ’45, the author came of literary age alongside writers such as Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Well-received in Latin America, with more than seventy-five books in every possible... Read More

In a world of ever-increasing specialization and narrow approach to life, this author seems a messenger from hungrier times. His professional credentials run the spectrum from karate-dō instructor, medical examiner, and college... Read More