Respublica falls into the tradition of other novels of Rome such as Collen McCullough’s Masters of Rome Series and Taylor Caldwell’s fictionalized biography of Cicero, Pillars of Iron. Unlike McCullough, who portrays Cicero in a... Read More

In 1903, long before the paved network of broad interstate highways linked the Atlantic to the Pacific, Holley Gene Leffler’s grandfather, Eugene I. Hammond, and his friend Lester L. Whitman chugged across the USA in a Curved Dash... Read More

In the early morning of August 6, 1945, three U.S. planes approached airspace over Hiroshima, Japan. Launched from Tinian in the North Marianas Islands, the planes —Enola Gay, which held the atomic bombs; The Great Artiste, carrying... Read More

In fifth-century Britain, the Kingdom of Dumnonia is in a state of limbo. The king and queen are dead, and their only child vanished on the night of the king’s murder. For the people of Dumnonia, left with no leadership or protection,... Read More

Describing poetry, Seamus Heaney said, “my lee is deeply tilled.” He compared meter and form to the patterns of agriculture, watching how a poem appeared on a page like furrows. Alison Amend’s new novel, Stations West, the story of... Read More

A select few literary greats had the privilege of loving so deeply, so intensely, that their lives were never again mundane. Inspired by her lover Henri de Latouche, a prominent man of letters in early nineteenth-century France,... Read More

Set in the chaotic era of the American Revolution, "The Lees of Menokin" focuses on the life of Francis Lightfoot Lee, a little known patriot. Lee, often portrayed as a “calm, rather inconspicuous man,” was surrounded by “that... Read More

In Richard Curtin’s first novel, a rambling story of the Vietnam War, David, a sheltered American youth, is deployed to a division based outside the city of Da Lat. Upon his arrival, David finds himself lost and begs a ride to the Fort... Read More