In "The Nameless", Liza Burgess crafts a heart-wrenching story of the ease of betrayal and the near impossibility of redemption. The prologue shows a woman entering an airport with her baby. Readers watch in horror as she sets herself... Read More

Management books run the gamut from parables, popularized by Ken Blanchard’s The One Minute Manager, to pontifications by business consultants. T. J. Everett’s book is neither of these; instead, the author uses a fanciful, creative... Read More

Judith Kitchen’s new memoir, Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate, kicks off with the following disclaimer: “I have never owned a camera and I never snap photos, except reluctantly when asked by others.” It’s an odd way... Read More

“The death of Osama bin Laden will not put an end to terrorism,” cautions Dr. Vahab Aghai in his short, tightly written, and quite thorough primer, "Terrorism, An Unconventional Crime". While bin Laden’s death was a satisfying... Read More

Gertrude Stein said, “Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.” In "Little Comrades", the author doesn’t fancy she had an unhappy childhood; she did. From birth, Laurie Lewis and her older brother were... Read More

Technically, the author of the title piece didn’t sample the mud crabs pulled from the trench where she and Hamid Karzai were taking shelter from Russian tanks in 1989. That was when commanders sent her into Afghanistan with their... Read More

The three nearly-connected stories in James Kaelan’s debut collection are remarkable for their surreality, bleakness, and linguistic acrobatics. Alone, each story comments on the nature of storytelling, from the desire to escape... Read More

For middle-class white-collar workers it’s almost required to dislike one’s job. The daily grind seems boring and spirit-crushing. It offers no mental stimulation or fulfillment and it takes time away from family friends and hobbies.... Read More