Near the end of Isensee’s comprehensive examination of how gay men adapt best to midlife, the “pre” question is posed: How do you know you’ve arrived? Sassy but perceptive answers are proposed: “People call you ‘Sir’”;... Read More

Like other of the poets of the New York School of Poetry, Lewis? work exhibits an urban sense of place, self-conscious sophistication, a playful sense of linguistic wit and a flirtation with French Surrealism. Of these, his sense of... Read More

Lyons admits, in Now It’s Our Turn, to feeling paralyzed by the gulf between perceived personal and global problems at the millennium’s close, yet she has authored here an energizing call to action. Speaking directly to women, she... Read More

This is the perfect book for people who enjoy answering questions as a means of judging their own lives and bringing them closer to the ideal. Anyone who is anxious to improve relationships among family members should find this book... Read More

Roberta is one bored puppy! Vacationing with Nanna and Gramps is not much fun. Roberta wants to go to the beach, but is confined to the house while her grandparents nap. When Roberta runs out of patience, she takes off on a solo trip to... Read More

In exile on Jersey, with “Ocean,” sky, and sadness shaping the emotional environment, Victor Hugo took up the newly popular practice of spiritism (“table turning”). Between 1853 and 1855, he, his family and friends recorded... Read More

Elaine Equi’s fine four-part collection, "Voice-Over", is marked by a freshness of view that has always been characteristic of her work. It is not that her subjects are so unusual—in fact, they tend toward ordinary experience; the... Read More

Beneath a veneer of too much blow-by-blow football and repetitive introspection lies a novel full of character and vitality, peopled by individuals all looking not to turn into—or be used by—anyone like the women who gave birth to... Read More