The Greek meaning of “semaphor”—to bear a sign—weighs heavily on the protagonist, Joseph Taft, in this new novel by G.W. Hawkes. Joseph is prescient—he experiences glimpses of the future—and these glimpses are as heavy as one... Read More

An old Yiddish proverb tells us “alleh shlosser ken men efenen mit a goldenem shlissel”: all locks can be opened with a golden key. What a surprising adventure to read Stella Suberman’s intimate book that unlocks an aspect of... Read More

The words “truth” and “stories” in the title of this bold, subversive book should alert the wary reader and, more especially, the flummoxed library cataloguer that Ellen Douglas, after four decades of acclaimed fiction, is boxing... Read More

After his charismatic, wealthy industrialist father is killed in a botched kidnapping, young Mike Frost seeks to heal his pain - and his irrational feeling that his father Charley is still alive -by tracing his father’s roots back to... Read More

It is a very pleasant and all-to-rare occasion when a reviewer receives, unsolicited and unexpected, in its modest bound galley a truly exceptional book. Such was the case when Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s Namako arrived at my home in the... Read More

Dick Wimmer’s stroke of genius in his fifth work is resurrecting his irreverently bawdy hero and world-renowned painter, Seamus Boyne (Irish Wine, 1989). Boyne’s antics of faking his own death to escape the burdens of fame backfire... Read More

With the gradual and gaining clarity of Drusilla Modjeska’s "The Orchard" comes the artfully honed definition of what a woman must risk in her pursuit of self. This restless need to grow into herself as she bears the compounding... Read More

She may have died broke and virtually unknown in 1960, but the marker that Alice Walker had erected on Hurston’s grave rightly declares her “Genius of the South.” These two anthologies, a small portion of Hurston’s writings over... Read More