By turns quirky, touching, amusing, and sad, Inside the World: As Al Lehman is an intellectual achievement that rivals some of the best literary fiction of the last half century. Marvin Cohen’s biography of the fictional Al Lehman,... Read More

"Bending Time" presents ideas that are logical and convincing, familiar enough to be comfortable yet challenging and well-reasoned enough to be motivating. In "Bending Time", Patrick Paul Garlinger channels messages from a “Council of... Read More

By telling the stories of courageous, successful women who work in high tech, Pratima Rao Gluckman validates the essential role of the woman in Silicon Valley in a memorable and very relevant way. Pratima Rao Gluckman’s "Nevertheless,... Read More

"In Search of Lost Lives" catalogs the author’s past lives, mining them for insights and producing exciting ideas. Michael Goddart’s memoir "In Search of Lost Lives" reads like a spiritual diary, following the memories, or sanskaras,... Read More

Good poets seem to recognize that what makes them good is what annoys them most about themselves. Damn the constant chatter—enough already!—but yes, admittedly, there’s some workable stuff in there. A masterful sifter, Tony... Read More

Stuart David’s character Peacock Johnson has already been through a bit, appearing in an earlier David novel and an actual Ian Rankin crime novel (it’s a long story). Now he’s back in Peacock’s Alibi, a fun caper highlighted by... Read More

Modern culture has some ’splaining to do. Climbing out of the Renaissance/Elizabethan age through to the late eighteenth century, an increasingly enlightened society emerged into the industrial wonders of the nineteenth century and... Read More

"The Two-Plate Solution" is a molten broth of comic, nonstop action from page one. The American TV show Natural Dish-aster is shooting in Israel, and producer Sara Sinek, a Special Forces veteran with a secret about her time embedded... Read More