Running throughout the narrative are strong threads about the untapped potential of women. In "The Mermaids of Lake Michigan", Suzanne Kamata explores one girl’s coming of age in the 1970s with heartbreaking detail. Trapped by her... Read More

Lighthearted satire and high-tech devices meet in There’s an App for That. Advances in software and gadgetry are often met with a certain degree of public mania. In the mind of comedy writer Ed Toolis, the conveniences of the... Read More

Sensuous prose teases out peculiarities in ostensibly conventional host of characters. “Life itself … just prolong[s] the inevitable” reflects a character in Flannery O’Connor Award recipient Nancy Zafris’s (The People I Know,... Read More

To scholars of Native American culture, little-known historian Francis La Flesche is the Rosetta Stone. Prior to La Flesche’s early twentieth-century field work, there were anthropologists and there were Indians. But there had never... Read More