Osmani’s collection takes inspiration from a great mystical poet and some of life’s hardships. Sufi mystic Maulana Rumi is said to be the greatest mystical poet of all time. New poet Rashid Osmani has used Rumi’s influence, coupled... Read More

António J. Marques-Mendes’s essays on economics and finance are rich in content and thought-provoking. The author’s slant may be European but his perspective is global. It is becoming increasingly common for bloggers to compile... Read More

"Wake-Up Calls" by Connie Gaertner is a sweet coming-of-age novel that highlights the excitement and troubles of puppy love. Life isn’t all roses for seventeen-year-old Krista, who has just landed her first summer job. “I’m... Read More

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.—Kurt Vonnegut Satire has been used by some of literary history’s finest authors to expose... Read More

Recent news reports indicate that bishops of the Roman Catholic Church have asked certain parishioners, either holding or seeking public office, to cease their support of extant abortion law. The message suggests that those who fail to... Read More

For some patients, the political and moral debates surrounding medical uses of embryonic stem cells may now be irrelevant. Ongoing research shows that the human body continues to produce stem cells that can be harvested and used to... Read More

"Sagaponic Lane" peeks beneath the personal emptiness of the Hamptons’ adulterous idlers and the summering arts crowd. Driven by efficient dialogue filtered through a largely sympathetic character this insiders’ revelation of frailty... Read More

A one-on-one casual basketball game turned into true friendship that lasted for years. “Big Toe” Jim Toback, as he was affectionately called by NFL great Jim Brown, or “J. B.,” writes an attention-grabbing accumulation of... Read More