We live in the age of stand-up paddleboards and kayaks the color of molten lava. Rare now to see the graceful reach and pull of two paddlers guiding their canoe along a lazy... Read More

Racial prejudice drives the action of this historical novel. In "The Cottoncrest Curse", the debut novel by Michael H. Rubin, an old family curse explains a murder-suicide on a... Read More

On July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey big top went up in flames. Paraffin was used to waterproof the tents in those days, and waxy... Read More

A multimedia work of art, Cyril Vetter’s first novel, Dirtdobber Blues, encourages readers to experience the semi-biographical story of blues musician Charles “Butch”... Read More

Describing poetry, Seamus Heaney said, “my lee is deeply tilled.” He compared meter and form to the patterns of agriculture, watching how a poem appeared on a page like... Read More

"Glory River" is David Huddle’s most eccentric and interesting collection yet. Always gentle and wry, often strange, his narrative poems here turn dark. “River,” in the... Read More

Machiavellian Moment: A “Machiavellian Moment,” as described by historian J.G.A. Pocock, in his 1975 book of that name, is when a nation faces such internal threats as a... Read More

“Herman Melville Crazy” was the assessment of a typical review of his Pierre: or, the Ambiguities, published in 1852, the year following the appearance of Moby-Dick. Other... Read More

In this volume, the author races between arriving and departing; her poems run with compulsion, to see the next place, hear a last voice, find a lost daughter or aunt, notice a... Read More

This is an appropriate poet to carry on the tradition of Walt Whitman. The poems in this first collection may not contain “barbaric yawps,” but they certainly speak... Read More

The characters of Margaret Luongo’s short story collection are united not by outward demographics, but by a commitment to survival. Most have reached a moment of crisis. There... Read More

Every child, everyone affected by Hurricane Katrina, and every animal lover will adore this sentimental yet informative book about the true story of Molly the Pony. Accidentally... Read More