The sheer number of lists that are featured in popular magazines and websites speaks to a cultural fascination with the enumeration (and often, qualification) of all sorts of things—twenty ways to balance your budget, the top ten... Read More

"Falling for the Devil", by Britt Holmström, explores the dark era of early seventeenth-century Scotland. Readers are taken along on one woman’s internal journey as she struggles with religious faith and doubt. The book raises complex... Read More

Even just a quick riffle through the pages of Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno can cause a healthy lowering of one’s blood pressure. Seeing such tranquil spaces in our generally chaotic world offers an escape to an... Read More

According to a research study released in 2010 by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press 81 percent of Americans believe that elected officials are more personally ambitious than publicly motivated, while 74 percent rate... Read More

It is 1059 A.D., and Edric celebrates his sixteenth birthday by punching his rival square in the nose. Edric is an Anglo-Saxon, and Osbern FitzRichard is a hated Norman, living in Edric’s land because Edward, the King of Engla-Lond,... Read More

This is certainly one way to go out: “My casket shall be filled to the rim with 2005 Saint-Émilion.” But in Michel Bruneau’s "The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer" that is only the beginning of the requests from recently... Read More

Gilbert Gatore’s first novel, "The Past Ahead", is not a story about genocide. Though it’s centered around the horrific events that took place in Rwanda during the 1990s, it’s also not a novel about war. Gatore relies on his... Read More

Somewhere between art and science, cheesemaking is not for the faint of heart. Caldwell begins her guide to the enterprise with a great deal of science. An extremely nuanced process becomes friendly through the author’s cheery advice... Read More