The days of an Oscar Madison-type sportswriter schlepping around a battered portable typewriter while covering the New York Mets are over. Today’s reporters have to contend with grueling schedules, crushing deadlines, shrinking... Read More

“Have you ever entered an indoor or outdoor space (like a beautiful park) and suddenly felt peace and joy? You were entering a space filled with positive life-force energy,” the author writes. According to Hartie, that’s the... Read More

Religious thought, dating from the Indian Vedas, Gnostic Christianity, and Buddhism to the present, speaks of an unseen web of life that interconnects all that exists in the physical world. Spiritual believers accept their faith without... Read More

That dreaded meeting with the boss—a few issues need to be discussed. Perhaps some deadlines have been missed, or a couple of angry outbursts escaped during meetings. Everyone has weaknesses that surface at work, and when they do,... Read More

What poetic form has proven more resilient and adaptable than the sonnet? The author’s fourth book—and second collection of sonnets—demonstrates that much remains to be done within the familiar confines of fourteen lines of iambic... Read More

Young mothers who feel that American culture is sending them “all the wrong messages about motherhood” will find a dose of camaraderie from this book. The author aims, humorously, to dispel tired suburban-mom myths, combining one... Read More

Hundreds of books seem to be published each year on the topic of parenting. Or rather, on many subtopics, ranging from normal and dysfunctional development, the different stages of childhood and teenage years, books about physical,... Read More

Grisly murders are nothing new to the back streets of Washington, D.C., but when the severed head of a man with mob connections is found impaled on a parking meter outside Georgetown’s hottest nightspot, the city explodes with macabre... Read More