Most books about Vietnam (e.g., The Things They Carried, Born on the Fourth of July) would not be described as optimistic. Despite its upbeat title, Barry Fixler’s "Semper Cool" isn’t all that optimistic, either. It’s an... Read More

Anticipation over the arrival of "Missing" centers on the author’s connection to William Maxwell, legendary fiction editor at The New Yorker and old friend of Cornelia Maude Spelman’s parents. Maxwell and Spelman become acquainted in... Read More

Sinking under the inexplicable mental illness that threatened to unravel her life in 1997, Bobby Baker began an eleven-year process of healing at the Pine Street Day Centre art room in London. An accomplished artist whose performance... Read More

As David Ellis Evans and Ivor Hughes note, modern people live in a device-driven world. Most read, talk, research, and relax on computers and cell phones, oftentimes without ever wondering how this high tech world came to be so. Thanks... Read More

“Marriage turns romance into misery,” says Julia Connery, now fifty-three and worried that hers is going sour. Through Julia’s eyes, Bee Robb’s "My Occasional Torment" explores relationships between couples—mostly middle-aged... Read More

One half of Cathi Unsworth’s latest novel, Bad Penny Blues, chronicles the ascent to success for young artists Stella and husband Toby. The other half of the story, alternating chapter by chapter with Stella’s voice, is the... Read More

“No one can humiliate you like your parents. No one else in the world has that tremendous power: the same power we have over our own children.” So declares Ernesto, the antihero in Ana María Shua’s latest novel, whose relationship... Read More

It’s clear from the first page that Sacred Ground & Holy Water is not a typical travel book. In this collection of travel stories, Lyn Fuchs moves around the globe from one adventure to another, and transports the reader to several... Read More