Selected poetry and short stories from native authors reflect on the heritage and landscape of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Michigan’s sparsely-populated Upper Peninsula is a place of forests, hills, and swamps. Its summers are almost... Read More

Machiavelli scholar paints a complex picture of the circumstances that shaped the man whose name became synonymous with political cunning. The term “Machiavellian” has established itself as a synonym for use of cunning and deceit... Read More

Essays try to uncover the hidden, evolutionary nature of human behavior. In Evolved: Chronicles of a Pleistocene Mind, author and amateur naturalist Maximilian Werner creates a memoir from a series of essays about his relationship with... Read More

R. Murray Schafer is a brilliantly talented painter, musician, and writer—and he knows it, his ego exposed in this otherwise wonderfully written memoir. "My Life on Earth and Elsewhere" traces his growth as an artist, beginning with... Read More

As seen through the author’s eyes, war distorts and reconfigures everything it touches—bodies, minds, values, fraternal and romantic relationships, local and national economies, and, indeed, the entire context of life. None can stand... Read More

The 2012 primaries and presidential election, and the subsequent standoffs between Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress, have offered plenty of examples of US politicians exhibiting the worst characteristics of stereotypically... Read More

“The real voyage of discovery,” wrote Marcel Proust, “consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” In *Journey to the Edge of Eden—*a book that is part memoir and part call for environmental... Read More

Howard Lakin’s "California Noir" follows a group of restless, edgy, unmarried friends as they enter middle age. Lakin has decades of Hollywood experience, writing and producing shows like Dallas and Falcon Crest. His experience shows... Read More