In Simon Van Booy’s charming novel "Sipsworth", a widow and a mouse forge an unexpected, exceptional bond. Helen grieves for her husband, her son, and the strength of her... Read More

Adam Goodheart’s book "The Last Island" collects compelling and tragic anecdotes about various failed efforts, from the Victorian age to the present, to encounter and... Read More

In Billy O’Callaghan’s haunting historical novel "The Paper Man", decades-old wartime secrets are revealed. Rebekah died of tuberculosis when her son, Jack, was a boy; the... Read More

Intrepid bookseller Shaun Bythell is back with his latest edition of wry tales from the Bookshop, Wigtown, Scotland’s beloved purveyor of used books. Bookending each entry... Read More

Not all poets are storytellers, not even close, but all of them wish they were, wish they had a better understanding of how words and images bind spells. Wesley McNair is the... Read More

In "The Isolation Artist", Bob Keyes explores the tumultuous life and death of an influential artist. Robert Indiana is best remembered for his rendering of the word “LOVE”... Read More

On a placid cruise along the Norwegian coast to gather material for a magazine feature on the Northern Lights, travel writer Chaney Kwak’s boredom turned into terror. The... Read More

Giddy with reverence for a master, this page is honored to call attention to this best-of collection—featuring 140 poems from Thomas Lynch’s five previous books, along with... Read More