To write a fictionalized autobiography of Jesus is to risk offending some readers. Edward J. Murray is to be commended for his courage, if not his style, in writing The Memoir of a Nazarene: Jay Levi. To have Jesus, or, as he is known in... Read More

Only in Muleshoe, Texas, could an incompetent clan of Elvis fanatics and rock-and-roll trivia experts who own a sewage treatment company need to connect with an Arabian sheik who looks like America’s number one enemy, Osama Al Osama.... Read More

For many readers, and even some of the painters among them, abstract art prompts often-heard complaints like, “my kid could do that!” To these skeptics, abstract art is the ultimate in impractical ventures, making a title like... Read More

It’s difficult to find a new way to examine an iconic figure, especially one as popular as Marilyn Monroe, but "Dressing Marilyn", by Andrew Hansford, manages to do precisely that. In cataloging the costumes created for Monroe by... Read More

Many business experts have noted that entrepreneurship tends to increase during a recession, as individuals begin to take more risks and make their own opportunities, rather than waiting for more traditional career tracks to appear. New... Read More

And so the war came! Bruno Temperoni was in his mid fifties when he wrote those words in a preface to the publication of a diary he kept as a callow twenty-year-old sailor, in the Italian Royal Navy, during World War II. The exclamation... Read More

It’s long been an accepted truth that conflict is the engine that powers all of our dramas, real or imagined. So it should come as little surprise that war comics have historically been one of that medium’s most enduring genres.... Read More

Born in the mid-fourteenth century to into an ethnic Chinese Han family, Confucian scholar and salt tax bureau manager Wang Tsong founded the Wang clan at KuHsien village and raised his family. Through tumultuous historical periods and... Read More