Animal lovers predisposed to humanize their pets may enjoy the revival of this 1938 bit of froth. G.B. Stern’s "The Ugly Dachshund", a canine version of Anderson’s The Ugly Duckling, is set in pre-war Provence. Tono, a young,... Read More

Author of the controversial The Woman with the Alabaster Jar, Starbird dives into one of the most compelling issues of modern times—the reclaiming of the sacred feminine and the “Sacred Marriage” of Christ and Mary Magdalene. An... Read More

Jenny Diski just wants to be alone. And who can blame her? First her dad deserts her (several times, actually), then her mom, then her sanity. She gets her sanity back, grows up, marries, has a kid and … her husband leaves her! So it... Read More

Of those poetry collections in the ecstatic genre, Sandra Alcosser’s "Except by Nature" is one of the best, deserving of its recent selection for the National Poetry Series. Poets of the ecstatic often craft images and language around... Read More