Heather McHugh’s reviews are swarmed by words like “clever,” “play,” and “language games.” She puns, she’s wry, and she foregrounds seriousness in the title of her latest collection. Still the wit, McHugh startles with a... Read More

The Perils of Cyril Wright is the story of a young man who prospers in spite of physical limitations. Cyril is the focus of his parents’ lives, and when they die, Cyril must go to live with a retired aunt. The protagonist’s... Read More

Born in 1922, author and playwright James Sunwall remembers the Great Depression with the vividness of childhood. His firsthand impressions of growing up in the rural Midwest inform the works in "Dodge County Fair". The main work, a... Read More

What do The Six Million Dollar Man Starsky and Hutch and Trilogy of Terror have in common? If you can answer this question you’re probably a Baby Boomer who rushed to the TV each week for the ABC Movie of the Week (MOTW). Launched in... Read More

"Fraudulent Fertilisation" is a strikingly realistic paternity struggle set in Mar del Plata Argentina during the 1980s. It comments critically on laws which cause innocent women to lack choices and on the broad vulnerability to... Read More

Sons of God Daughters of Man is an exceptionally creative generally well-written book. Set in a future world Pangea where mankind has migrated away from a dying Earth through mystic portals the characters are persuasive and the dialog... Read More

Pakistan’s current economic system warped by omnipresent corruption and black market exchange produces a literacy rate of 50 and a poverty rate of 32. The government attempts to provide for the needs of 165 million citizens with annual... Read More

“The people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists as for a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” -... Read More