Weddings are a facet of every culture, however their purposes and their customs vary greatly between cultures. Gaining an understanding of various customs often leads to cultural respect, and thus award-winning author Yale Strom’s book... Read More

A follow-up to the well-received Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing also edited by Raphael Kadushin "Big Trips" doesn’t suffer from sequel-itis that peculiar malady that can strike a sec-ond volume of a strong anthology. Rather than... Read More

Peter Cole is well known for his many translations from Hebrew and Arabic. He is also a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and co-editor of Ibis Editions (Jerusalem). In this major new book he goes on a poetic and autobiographical search... Read More

Being a parent is the toughest job you’ll ever love. When you’re a stepparent, the job can be even harder. The more relationships there are to navigate within a family, the more chances for misunderstandings, resentments, and... Read More

With its blood-red title and gothic print of the elderly Faust leafing through a heavy tome of incantations the cover of Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World may be off-putting to some; but readers shouldn’t judge this book by its... Read More

The authors have transformed the catalog-of-climbs, accounts-of-accidents approach of Himalayan mountaineering history into one that captures history and change—from sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century reports, through the... Read More

In this handsomely produced volume, Lindesay achieves a five-strike success. He provides a concise account of the when, whys, and wheres of wall building, dispatching the still-enduring myths of a single wall, built at a single time or... Read More

The first sentence of Silliman’s forty-years-in-the-making opus, “If the function of writing is to ‘express the world,’” is unfinished to a strict grammarian. But Silliman goes on to do just that, and the world he expresses... Read More