An astute observer once remarked to Scottish bookseller Shaun Bythell that “every industry has its porn.” For those who crave the specific “filth” of literary voyeurism... Read More

To fish is to know the singular, electrifying moment when fish, bait, line, rod, and wrist all sense the others in a shock of surprise. The sensation is such a rush, few anglers... Read More

"Bibliophilia" will likely appeal to those who love to learn about books and their authors, and to those with a yen for collecting. In N. John Hall’s delightfully bookish... Read More

The long, storied history of gardening as an art form extends many thousands of years, and the great contemporary garden designers owe much to the work of their predecessors,... Read More

Levy brings a human face to the issues present in the coalfields and leaves us with a deeper understanding of what is at stake in Appalachia. Mountaintop-removal surface mining... Read More

In this brilliant translation of Nobel Laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio’s book "The African", the now-­seventy­-three-­year-­old writer goes back to his childhood spent in... Read More

Born in 1908, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh used his camera and a keenly sensitive eye to chronicle the epic known as the twentieth century. Karsh’s portraits of... Read More

There are men who learn at a very young age to travel the safest path—do what your parents wish for you, never try to be better than you think you are. Jack Landry isn’t... Read More

It would be a mistake to dismiss "All My Dogs" by Bill Henderson as just another entry into the already inflated category of canine books, because this little memoir is... Read More

The “problem” with novellas that take just over an hour to read is that, if the author has done a stellar job, it may take twice as long for a reader to adequately describe... Read More

One of the postcards in this meticulously researched book shows a streetcar riot in Muskegon, Michigan on August 5, 1919, where some of the streetcars are overturned. The... Read More

Reading through this anthology is like perusing a bookworm gourmands library on a sunny slow day. Much as in the single-name editors paintings, some of which serve as... Read More