Vermeer’s Milkmaid is the work of a poet. With a myriad of quirky characters and imagery that captivates the far reaches of the imagination, Manuel Rivas crafts miniature worlds that manage to be as peculiar as they are spectacularly... Read More

With the increasing popularity of TV shows like Desperate Housewives, the wide range of sexual sites available on the Internet, and the revelation that video games like Grand Theft Auto include not only extreme violence but sexual... Read More

Psychiatrist, guru of modern hypnosis, acute observer of life and the human condition from a wheelchair, Milton Erickson (1901—1980) comes back to life in this book, enriched with pictures and sound. He practiced what he preached,... Read More

The “certain age” explored is middle life. The single woman is actually twenty-eight single women, writing about single-hood, motherhood, their bodies, their pasts, and—predominantly—about love. Whether the women are shunning it... Read More

The authors seem to be a match made in heaven, here on earth. They are both practitioners of “self-development” and believers in the powers of holistic health care. They appreciate the power of humor, believe in divine inspiration,... Read More

Images of the Old West have become so ingrained in American culture that it’s difficult to imagine a Western-themed novel without a grizzled-but-kindly cowboy or a few six guns put to good use. The author, a rancher in Oregon, manages... Read More

“I neared a moment of perfection,” says Dahlgren Wallace. “My definition of perfection involves moving water, solitude, a fly rod, a dry fly, and a trout.” Hooking the reader as readily as his main character hooks a trout, the... Read More

“What kind of constitution does it take to mount a lifelong fight against the plight of being consigned to a body that is inert?” asks the author. As a teenage athlete and star hockey player, Schwass sustained catastrophic neck... Read More