Need to survive the apocalypse? There’s a plant for that. If natural disaster strikes and grocery store shelves go bare, what could an apartment dweller find to eat? The thought of “apocalypse insurance” drove Rebecca Lerner to... Read More

A powerful voice for integration and the oppressed, baseball and civil rights icon shows his humanitarian nature. After Jackie Robinson ended his major league career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he became a nationally syndicated columnist... Read More

Early accounts of Alaskan adventures illustrate the harsh but appreciable wilderness with lyrical prose. Exotic, daunting, scenic: the words chosen to describe Alaska in the introduction to this collection are of the sort that pique... Read More

Sensuous prose teases out peculiarities in ostensibly conventional host of characters. “Life itself … just prolong[s] the inevitable” reflects a character in Flannery O’Connor Award recipient Nancy Zafris’s (The People I Know,... Read More

Alice Walker, too restless to retire, has a great deal more to say in meditations, essays, and letters. In her latest collection of short prose, we learn that Alice Walker once looked forward to her retirement with an almost voracious... Read More

Corporate capitalism has gone horribly wrong, author says. What we need is a citizen takeover. The cultural, social, and political movement begun by the American Revolution is as alive as ever. Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor... Read More

Adopt a positive attitude to achieve “golf flow” and improve your game. Gio Valiante, a sports psychologist and established mental-game consultant in the sport, speaks from a credible position in Golf Flow: Master Your Mind, Master... Read More

With a special passion for the food of Crete, this author offers dissections of food and culture worth thinking about. In his memoir, Eric Ball answers serious questions that everyone who claims involvement in the current food revolution... Read More