In his ambitious novel Journey to Virginland: Epistle 1 author Armen Melikian serves up a searing commentary on the earth and its inhabitants through the canine eyes of “Dog,” a self-proclaimed canine, and an ethnic Armenian. Dog... Read More

It is rare that a book is palatable like a well-sauced scaloppini that demands to be enjoyed slowly, bite by bite. "Early Pleasures" by Frederick Kohner is such a book. Kohner was born in Bohemia in 1905 in a family and place that,... Read More

It would take no less than a poet with an evolved spirit and keen sense of history to add new insights on the Holocaust. Andre Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006), a Polish Jew whose parents and brothers were victims of the Nazis, was just such a... Read More

Political analysts throughout the world assert their opinions about the future of the United States. Commentary ranges from positive expectation to negative prediction, along with advice to implement a constructive plan or avoid a... Read More

"Last of the Gnostics" is based upon the story of the Cathars, early Gnostics who believed in the “nous” or spiritual mind that connects all through consciousness. According to the author, who considers himself a fifth level Old Soul... Read More

The gruesome killing of a prize racehorse in Kentucky in 1973; the murder of two tourists on a Las Vegas roller coaster decades later; the naturalization of Nevada Senator Zach Hardin, whose Egyptian childhood is a closed book: Seemingly... Read More

"52 Loaves" is not really about the pursuit of truth, meaning, and a perfect crust, as the subtitle claims—but readers can indulge the author his bit of literary embellishment. This book, a breezy, captivating account of the author’s... Read More

Poets compare love with roses—but roses possess thorns. Writers often imply life always ends up all right—it doesn’t. "Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger", by Lee Smith, offers fourteen short stories about overcoming the... Read More