Heartbreak sucks. Corinne Mucha’s "Get Over It" is probably as close to a cure as we’re going to get. With laugh-out-loud humor matched perfectly with fantastic inked drawings, including input from her exasperated brain and exhausted... Read More

Discover Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from a new perspective in this exciting remake of a beloved classic. Margaret Pearl takes her "Lusty Little Women" into forbidden territory, breaking the rules and restrictions imposed on... Read More

Dedication and sacrifice bring former academic rivals together in this medical drama set in an 1891 Washington, DC, hospital. "With Every Breath", by Elizabeth Camden, reveals the terrifying impact of tuberculosis during a time when... Read More

You want Jersey tough? Step aside, Gov. Chris Christie. Meet Deb Ebenstein. In the summer of 1993, she was sixteen with great legs, curly brown hair, and smarts enough not to smoke—the “whole package,” she doesn’t mind saying.... Read More

Once past the in-your-face, nude cover picture of Peter Orlovsky and the poet Allen Ginsberg embracing, taken by none other than Richard Avedon, a reader is provided with an inside view of the gentler and more serious aspects of the Beat... Read More

It could be alleged—no insult intended—that Tim Grove, who has worked in the most prestigious history museums in the United State, is a rewriter of history. Take the case of Betsy Ross. Every school kid knows she sewed the first... Read More

What with the damning convolutions of ignorance, disingenuousness, and angst that shadow so much of the discussion of race in the United States, it is heartening when hope glimmers, as it does when Clifton Taulbert unpacks his defensive... Read More

In his brief, thoughtful essays in "Something There Is", David Sayre, an engineer who has led advances in communication and energy technologies for thirty years, speaks about the encounters he has had with people all over the world who... Read More