“The British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott began an autobiography that he never finished. The first paragraph simply says, ‘I died.’ In the fifth paragraph he writes, ‘Let me see. What was happening when I died? My prayer had been... Read More

With eighty recipes from thirty-one Wordbeams authors and three members of Wordbeams’ staff, this cookbook offers a variety of taste treats from all parts of the United States and several other countries. This cookbook is not your... Read More

When their parents insisted the family spend summer vacation together at the Cape Lighthouse station at Cape Otway in Australia, Aaron and Gracie were convinced it was going to be a long, boring summer. When they arrive and Aaron and... Read More

Cocaine Conundrum: “Bullets suddenly began to fly at us again, although from a new direction as our attackers circled to cut us off. We plunged on. Moving almost blindly now, our skins lacerated by the unforgiving brush, we finally... Read More

Igniting the masses in conflict, the emergence of cremation as a death rite has consumed the last century of American history in flames of debate and plumes of literary metaphor. Yet, with growing acceptance of cremation, the rigid... Read More

Fanon probably doesn’t belong in the same pantheon as Christ or Gandhi, as Ehlen alludes to in the opening chapter of his book. The man and his ideas, however, certainly deserve more consideration than they are accorded today. Fanon, a... Read More

Over the course of five decades and two dozen books, V. S. Naipaul has taken his readers on journeys through the postcolonial landscapes of India, the West Indies, and the Middle East. (Some would consider his 1989 bestseller, A Turn in... Read More

“No one can better teach us about sexual pleasure than poets,” writes the editor. Maltz critiques contemporary American culture for its commercialization and trivialization of sex, offering old and new poems by various authors as the... Read More