Mark Biedebach’s “memoir-based fantasy” is two intriguing stories wrapped into one. In the telling one story is easier to follow but the other is more intellectually challenging. Both however are worthy: one for the... Read More

The balance of responsive caring and reasonable demands is essential for children’s good mental health. Split the difference between the arch-authoritarian of The Great Santini and the hands-off permissiveness of Courtney Love. In the... Read More

Near the end of her life, early reformer Clarina Nichols (1810—1885) wrote, “what a book I might have given to my dear children, relatives, and personal friends.” With this thorough biography detailing Nichols’s life, the author... Read More

For some teens and young women life is about raging hormones sex relationships and misunderstandings. For protagonist Kaysha it is all that plus a little bit of attitude gossiping and mistakes. In Emma-Louise Byfield’s novel "Love... Read More

In the early winter of 1863, a young Union soldier in a letter home mentioned a comrade who had taken ill: “The other night the Corporal had a baby, for the Corporal turned out to be a woman!” The now-unidentified woman from New... Read More

The author characterizes Russia’s Silver Age as the period in the early twentieth century when the country’s culture and art evolved from critical realism to aestheticism, and the “pyrotechnic outburst of Russian modernism”... Read More