For much of his life, Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. was dogged by publicity, most of it bad. Even his death produced lurid speculation and rumors. People paid attention because the man was filthy rich. Yes, that’s Dick Reynolds, the son of... Read More

Sixteen-year-old Evie doesn’t mind that she’s the oldest paper carrier by three years, and the only girl, too. She knows that every Sunday morning as she’s delivering papers in the trendy Hokepe Woods neighborhood, she’ll... Read More

In January 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts issued a report titled Reading on the Rise. Jim Collins explores the milieu that enabled this rise in "Bring on the Books for Everybody". But this monograph isn’t a dry report.... Read More

No, Don’t Call Me a Crook! is not a posthumous book by Richard Nixon. It is instead a memoir, circa the 1920s, by a Glaswegian marine engineer named Bob Moore. He is, by his own admission, a thief, a liar, a con man, and certainly a... Read More

“The human form is arguably the most difficult subject for an artist to render,” writes author and experienced art model, Andrew Cahner. “A landscape drawn a little inaccurately will still look like a landscape, but an error in... Read More

Dad’s the one who messed up in my family, but I’m the one who has to go see a therapist. On what planet does that make sense? In "Alex and the Amazing Dr. Frankenslime", a novel by Margot Desannoy for children ages nine to fourteen,... Read More

H. L. Mencken, one of the greatest American social critics and journalists, would likely say today that we too willingly accept the antics of the poltroons and cads who pass themselves off as our political leaders. That makes this new... Read More

To the question, “What makes a poet’s language distinctive?” Avison once ad-libbed, “Not just affection for words, which is common to all good writers; not necessarily a matter of cadence, formal structures, rhythmÂ…[but the... Read More