From very early on, the novel’s main characters note Valentine’s “difference.” Omniscient, kind and startlingly beautiful, she possesses unusual sensibilities. Her migration to England from the Caribbean to become a nun is... Read More

Despite the growth of computing in America over the last several decades, there have been no significant productivity gains. One possible reason for this is a lack of understanding of how to manage information. Devlin’s book focuses on... Read More

An intriguing debut novel, Calhoun’s Firegold captures the imagination as readers follow the adventure-filled story of Jonathon Brae, the unraveling of the mysterious poem about the legendary Firegold and how Jonathon and the poem are... Read More

Falling from the arc light of artistic nomenclature, oil paintings wed to copper seemingly elude classification, withdrawing to a reclusive realm of art. After flourishing with ample time and fertile foreign soils to claim interest in... Read More

In 1933, the Bauhaus in Dessau was dissolved by the Third Reich. Hitler ordered the “intellectual and ideological education and training of artists” to be placed under surveillance. Dr. Goebbels published a manifesto which included,... Read More

One should not judge a book by its cover, but this handsomely bound volume deserves to be admired for itself. Its dark cloth cover with a single woodcut affixed, its letter type styles for chapter headings with extra decorative... Read More

On March 16, 1968, 504 Vietnamese villagers—212 twelve year olds and younger—were murdered by American soldiers of Charlie Company, led by Lieutenant William Calley, “the butcher of My Lai.” Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who... Read More

It seems fitting to do a retrospective of twentieth-century art just as the century closes, to assess our own time as we’re still in it. Which is what Lucie-Smith does in this collection of brief biographies of one hundred “great”... Read More