Imagine trekking, bare-hooved, across 800 or more miles of the most rugged, unforgiving terrain in Alaska and the Yukon. Every year, the Porcupine herd of caribou makes just such a journey. Robert Leonard Reid, accomplished armchair... Read More

“When Christopher Marlowe awoke on the morning of May 30 1593 he was the greatest playwright England had ever known. That evening he was reported dead killed in a tavern brawl over the bill. No one knows where he is buried.” That is... Read More

Tweens and teens who don’t know much about the important financial decisions and potential pitfalls they will be facing in the coming years will find basic information on budgeting, using checks and credit cards, and other financial... Read More

Alexa McKay’s first day in New York is an androphilic teenage runaway’s dream. An attractive man meets her at the airport buys her lunch and gives her a sports car and a rent-free apartment. Her real father (a god) has left a gift... Read More

“My early life was more work than play” writes Clara Threatt Vincent the eldest child of handsome one-armed Clarence. “We worked harder than any adult did in our community but he was always complaining about us” she writes of her... Read More

It doesn’t take much to make Peter Lawrence happy: a lawn chair, a clean sleeping bag liner, a good library within walking distance, his laptop with USB TV tuner that can store everything from financial records to personal photos, and... Read More

Freedom to most Americans is an abstract concept. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the earnest rhetoric of Marxist—Leninist ideologues has been reduced to quaint slogans found in history books. But not to Lucy Ankus the heroine of... Read More

“’[A] nuclear missile attack on Israel is imminent as is a dirty bomb attack on this country. If and I underline if the information is valid beyond doubt it calls for no it demands a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear and... Read More