"Budge" is one of the more quirky, unconventional, picaresque novels to come along in a while. It can be pleasurable, if the reader is willing to roll with Osborne’s approach to prose, which is original, if not necessarily expedient.... Read More

Swiss national Lucinda Ruh was on top of the world when she made an international name for herself in the world of figure skating as the Queen of Spin. Ruh, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest spin on ice, may... Read More

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. —Akhenaten King Amenhotep IV the tenth Pharoah of... Read More

Most authors yearn for the Golden Age of publishing when the only imperative for a writer was to write. It was up to the publisher to edit, market, and promote the finished book. That is no longer so in this market-driven era, and this... Read More

A systematically designed absurdism rolls over modern Paris in James Earle McCracken’s eminently readable debut novel. At the surreal center is a thirty-year-old American named Michael Whyte who is way out of his element. The first... Read More

Tim Lister takes on the Wild American West in his novel Massacre at Pilgrims’ Pass. The piece begins as Sylvester a Harvard-educated surgeon accompanies his sister Mimi to her betrothed. On the way their wagon is attacked by Cheyenne... Read More

In his compelling, but often plodding, biography of Leonidas Polk (1806—1864), the author, assistant professor of history at Georgia Southwestern State University, offers a portrait of a man whose life combined the nobility of the... Read More

Following a vision to change the world can seem easy. The ideal is abstract and, though it may call for personal sacrifice, it can be abandoned when it becomes too challenging. Following a vision that requires change within oneself,... Read More