Capaldo conveys adoption and contemporary Italy with thoughtful details. "The Rabbit Culture" explores the unique challenges of adoption but digs even deeper into the economic, political, and social environment of Italy in the new... Read More

Jewish mysticism is shown to have much in common with counterparts in Islam, perhaps opening roads to dialogue. A new collection presents the translated work of Leo Schaya, a leader in scholarship on Kabbalah and mysticism whose work... Read More

Dunning shines in her ability to portray the insecurities and floundering that so often accompany young adulthood. Greta Smart faces romantic rejection, a threat to her livelihood, and the loss of a beloved family member in "Greta Smart... Read More

This experimental prose-poetry piece is an ambitious and heartfelt salute to Newfoundland. Often writers have the desire for their work to take readers to another realm—to create transcendence with their prose. It’s no easy task.... Read More

Keiffer’s struggles with depression challenge the rest of us to seek awareness of how our friend, family member, or coworker might be suffering. Now a multimedia project incorporating her traveling photographic exhibit, Ann Keiffer’s... Read More

Heartbreakingly honest, authentically mature, Evans’s memoir is a testament to survival through loss and grief. Stanford fellow and poet John W. Evans delivers a memoir of unexpected grief which is both emotionally ragged and deeply... Read More

Reinventing oneself becomes an imaginative feat in these arresting short stories. Tracy DeBrincat returns via her third book with portraits of distressed youth who seek change through hyperbolic, imaginative, or risky feats, and women in... Read More

Grace’s gift for using everyday situations to suggest universal truths creates poetry that is both artistically pleasing and spiritually inspiring. The Temple: Meditations on the Spiritual Life is a collection of sensitive poems that... Read More