“The whole father-son thing” drifts into focus in memoir of killer’s son. "Cloudbreak, California" is Kelly Daniels’ memoir of drifting through a series of adventures in Latin America, while attempting to reconcile the fantasy... Read More

Charlie Sheppard’s "Save Your Drama for Your Mama" is based on a simple premise—that leadership is a choice, and that “the behaviors we learned as children don’t provide us with the best leadership competencies as adults.” As a... Read More

No magazine covered the bloody and turbulent events of the civil rights movement more faithfully than Jet. Years before the brutal treatment of blacks was acknowledged in the white mainstream press, Jet, according to comedian and... Read More

Throughout history, there have been great men and women, wars, tragedies, and triumphs—and seemingly always someone willing to preserve the memories of such. Whether the collector’s objective is for money and resale, obsession with... Read More

“If I am ever set free. What then? Will I crash into walls forever like a blind butterfly? Will my wings be so torn and ragged that I will be forced to limp through the rest of my life?” In "Secret Storms", Julie Mannix von Zerneck... Read More

In his debut collection, Ron Parsons mines the northernmost region of the American Midwest, mapping the lives of those bound to the beautiful and hard area by love, family, duty, and sometimes simply by snow. Parsons is concerned with... Read More

From slick covered stacks of capes and masks a boy begins the walk to school with ganglions blitzing comic book kinetics. One step bat, one step spider, fists popping claws, carrying shields and totem boomerangs, he walks the rooftop... Read More

In her elegant, short volume of essays, Patricia Vigderman asks questions about possibility and its opposite. These are complicated essays to read, not in the sense that they are difficult to understand, but because the author makes a... Read More