The author’s clever plots lend themselves to unique twists, as in The Lure, Parallel Lives, and Looking Glass Lives. The plot of Onyx, set in the early 1990s, is deceptively clean: two long-time male lovers are coming to the end of... Read More

Two things stand out in Stevenson’s phenomenal but short life: the amount of time he was seriously ill and the amazing amount of travel he undertook in an age long before automobiles and airplanes. Stevenson wasn’t simply prone to... Read More

On the front cover is the work of a Canadian icon, Lawren S. Harris. His 1920 oil on canvas, Algama Hill, is matched on the reverse cover by “one of the most famous images in Inuit art,” Kenojuak Ashevak’s The Enchanted Owl.... Read More

Although McLaughlin’s book arrives in the peak of summer, it’s destined for year-round discovery and inspiration. His background as a chef and restaurateur in the Southwest and author of two previous cookbooks plus many magazine... Read More

Don’t fall in love with your own airship, warns Umberto Eco in his little section of this book. His warning, meant to evoke memories of those foolish days when inflatable aircraft were considered the future of aviation, is quoted in... Read More

It seems fitting to do a retrospective of twentieth-century art just as the century closes, to assess our own time as we’re still in it. Which is what Lucie-Smith does in this collection of brief biographies of one hundred “great”... Read More

This work is a celebration of twenty-five distinguished years of publishing, intended as a “sampling” of Graywolf authors over the decades. Where one might expect the fashionable ennui and overwrought self-absorption beloved of the... Read More

“The only way to study the Bible is to read it…To understand any part,” says Christian author Larry Richards, “we need to know what part it fits into THE BIG PICTURE. When you understand THE BIG PICTURE, you can open the Bible... Read More