Fans of sailing and seafaring stories will find Kermit R. Mercer’s Cargo of Hate: A Sailing Story to be a rewarding read. General readers, however, will find it to be something of a struggle, albeit one worth enduring. In the preface,... Read More

Trying to digest the extent and implications of Gordon L. Ewell’s injuries is nearly impossible. A career soldier, the master sergeant was severely wounded in an IED explosion in Iraq. After fifty-nine missions, it was the sixth such... Read More

Axel Hooley’s life has been far from simple. Of unknown parentage, he is found as a baby by an Amish couple who raise the mysterious child until he turns sixteen, when they push him out on his own. The following years encompass a wide... Read More

To encourage children to be more active, former physical education teacher Deloris Suddarth has drawn upon a decade of experience to compile fun, entertaining games and activities geared toward youngsters in kindergarten through third... Read More

Rosenthal’s latest book of magical journalism—a term for writing that is “informed by ideas that are impossible to believe and overdetermined by the conviction that those are the best kind”—explores contemporary Los Angeles and... Read More

Monotheistic religions teach the practice of remembering God in each moment. The Sufi poet Rumi wrote about staying awake to life from moment to moment to realize enlightenment. The practices of tai chi and yoga use physical movement to... Read More

The Madonna-Whore Complex has been explored in countless scholarly works, each with its own take on the underlying cause, as well as the social impact of this male disorder. Kathryn Schleich’s contribution to the growing body of... Read More

Ramadan, the annual month-long fast, is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. Along with believing in the Oneness of God, praying five times daily, tithing a percent of one’s income to the needy, and making the “haj,” or... Read More