Jean Lorrain is the pen name of Paul Alexandre Martin Duval (1855-1906), a French writer and journalist who, though he was one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, is remembered today mainly for his duel with Marcel Proust... Read More

With its brilliant simplicity, "Holy Hodgepodge!" serves as a guide to a life of piety and sincerity. "Holy Hodgepodge!" by Paul E. Sago works to break through the mess surrounding organized Western religion, arguing that most people... Read More

With its successful and balanced approach to human connection and spirituality, "Free to Fly" is compelling. "Free to Fly" by Jean Bisbey is a thought-provoking exploration of the deep philosophical questions that all people face, as... Read More

This energetic work serves as a beguiling introduction to gnosticism. If a Dan Brown novel were turned into a dizzying, real-life unraveling of a newly revealed gnostic text, it might read something like Robert Wahler’s "Misreading... Read More

This is a novel with a lot of heart, whose hope for Nigeria’s women shines through, even if pathways to equality resist definition. Ishaya Albert’s "Mirage of Afro-Feminism" is a novella that explores the intersection of women’s... Read More

This poetry collection is a wide, bright vein of life that cracks open the tender, violent, imaginative earth we stand on. The forty-two poems in Carl Hitchens’s newest collection, "Shades of Light", represent a shimmering spectrum of... Read More