The sole sister is often a lonely sister. But being “single does not necessarily mean lonely.” Some women choose to be single, even preferring to parent alone. In fact, culture critics predict that most women over the age of... Read More

Travel has always been a rich mine of introspection and discovery that goes far beyond simply viewing new landscapes or sampling unfamiliar food, and editor Gillian Kendall (author of Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet) is adept at selecting... Read More

“Christophe slid closer to his brother, and when his arm slid along the length of Joshua’s forearm, for a second it was as if Christophe had touched himself, crossed his own forearms: toucher and touched.” Strengthened by each... Read More

“In coffeehouses, literary schools and styles were born and discarded, and new directions in painting, music and architecture emerged.” Novelist, sportsman, and anti-Nazi journalist Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979) presents... Read More

Seventeen-year-old Michelle Guzman suffers egregious abuse from her stepparents and older stepbrother; conditioned to accept that she deserves it she’s sliding into apathy. Her stepmother’s program of systematic starvation has... Read More

There are inherent difficulties in understanding what people within other cultures believe. This is especially true when it comes to American perceptions of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims. In "Who Speaks for Islam?", Georgetown... Read More

We are creatures that have always pondered the questions of where we came from and why are we here. Since humanity first become self-aware we’ve found the answers by creating mythologies based on our experiences and observations. In... Read More

The novel begins with a prologue too often a red flag for readers and truly one in this case. The disjointed prologue—a background information dump—links to the remaining 230 pages of this novel via a television. The boy who received... Read More