Two scientists at BioGenTech think they’ve discovered a cure for cancer. Just before the research report is released to the public however Dr. Jeremy Branson turns up dead—a supposed suicide—and the other scientist Dr. Gustof... Read More

Colorful Creator.While some may see a beautifully sewn quilt as an invitation for a cozy nap, for others it is a painstaking art form that combines the traditional with the contemporary. The eponymous "Nancy Crow" Breckling Press, 10 x... Read More

In 1889 when American architect Frank O. Gehry created the Guggenheim Museum in Spain, he proved that art isn’t always inside the museum, sometimes art is the museum! Similar fun facts from A to Z are shared with readers through clever... Read More

Two women are undergoing in vitro fertilization. The embryologist whose job it is to sort and prepare the embryos for implantation mixes them up. Nine months later one of the women gives birth to the other woman’s baby. Is it human... 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 the tradition of Louise Gluck’s lyric narratives and religious and near-religious imagery, these poems are stark, lean, and fresh. In them, the poet considers longing and desire, language and death. She begins with the raven and the... Read More

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,”” said Kipling. A poetic sentiment, to be sure, but one that has misleading implications when tracing the derivation of Western philosophic doctrine. From Plutarch to... Read More

Although early twenty-five percent of U.S. children suffer from depression, fewer than twenty percent of emotionally troubled children in this country receive help. Yet the vast majority of parents, if asked, would likely say that what... Read More