Journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood’s book encourages thinking outside the Wonder bread version of US parenting. "How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm" (the baby is kept in a carrier made of animal hides, close to the mother’s body, and... Read More

With the 2012 American political season well underway, there’s little doubt politicians and pundits will be unable to avoid playing up the divide between Main Street and Wall Street. It’s an easy sound bite and looks great in bold... Read More

Socially isolated, beleaguered Peter Huddleston seems doomed to be the victim of nasty neighbors, his disconnected dad, and his step-mother’s devotion to beige décor and bland cuisine. However, Peter’s idyllic summer of cheese... Read More

In the tradition of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophesy, and Carlos Castenada’s The Teachings of Don Juan comes Strays, by Jeanne Webster. This tale of a woman searching and finding her raison... Read More

Seven spirals of energy, whirling radiantly within the body, join our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual selves, and their “alignment” is crucial to how we feel, interact, and move through the world. Originally a Hindu... Read More

“What is true is hard to establish,” says one of several narrators, and this seems to especially refer to "Color Plates"—a collection of stories as abstract and varied as the paintings from which they spring. Adam Golaski uses work... Read More

The history of World War II is so rich in character and detail that fiction presented alongside often pales in comparison, and this is especially true for a story so nuanced and taut as Kohl presents in "The Witness House". The cast of... Read More

After two years of “hitting the books,” James Feinstein enters the clinical or hands-on portion of his medical training and comes face to face with patients. His memoir, Short White Coat, named after the third-year medical student... Read More