Maurice D. Kornberg, in his nineties, has written a touching tribute to his beloved wife of almost fifty-four years, Ruthy. Within this unabashed love story are relationship pearls of wisdom aimed at the younger generation. Bereft at... Read More

The author races readers through nine decades, steering a course filled with snippets of world history and brief glimpses of her personal life. Beginning in the 1920s, Mimi mentions the Roaring Twenties, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, and... Read More

Roger KA Allen has written a beautiful and fascinating memoir about his family and childhood growing up in Australia in the 1950s. The son of a “unique” country doctor and a nurse, Allen touchingly chronicles his life in Australia... Read More

Ken Harvey wants to be married, a reasonable enough desire, since he’s been part of a cohabitating couple for nearly a decade. But little is easy for a gay couple, even one living in Massachusetts before, during, and after the same-sex... Read More

Some twenty years after the United States gained its independence from England, Haiti won liberation from French rule and slavery, becoming the first republic ruled by citizens of African descent. As a prelude to their own struggle, a... Read More

What would it be like, as an American, to relocate to Merida, on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and operate a business? Gus Gordon did just that, and he recounts his colorful experience in "Adventures in Paradise". Interestingly, Gordon... Read More

The big strong male that’s in front…doesn’t lead…he follows in front. It’s we, the mothers and grandmothers and children, who lead with our squawking, screeching, happy sounds. These are the words of the author’s grandmother,... Read More

In his essay “Memoir,” for the New York Times Book Review section last January, Neil Genzlinger called for “A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up,” thus beginning a terse review of four recently published... Read More