Storytelling and medical research collide in the psychiatric emergency room, and Dr. Paul Linde uses both to show readers the full range of day-to-day life in the ER. Linde’s story-peopled with the insane and the suicidal, caretakers... Read More

Like Dim Sum for the intellectually curious and literary-minded, Gioia’s chronicle of the birth and death of cool samples a variety of genres and disciplines. In the end, the reader has not consumed great portions from any literary... Read More

Edwin J. Sprague’s novel "The Point Guard" is part political science and criminal justice treatise and part murder mystery law thriller and police story. This dangerous combination results in a convoluted roller coaster ride through... Read More

“I learned about inequalities in the eyes of others. Just like oppression it is about ignorance. It is about insecurity selfishness and control. Mostly it is about fear of the unknown.” This quote articulates the type of treatment... Read More

"The Big Lie" follows seven people throughout a school year in the 1950s post-war climate of Paris where political military and social struggles combine with the angst common to students and lovers. Set at the American High School the... Read More

The origins of Valentine’s Day are a curious and tangled mix of pagan holiday, Catholic martyrology, and romantic medieval lore. Even within the martyrologies, three Valentines exist. Who is the namesake of Chet Raymo’s sparkling... Read More

Thanks to digital cameras, every moment of a trip can now be captured, stored, tweaked, emailed, and thrown onto a blog with accompanying anecdotes. But, as travelers often discover, it’s the moments that escape being recorded that... Read More

Stroke survivors experience varying degrees of suffering and different levels of damage to different parts of the brain. The result is different kinds of disability with which they must thereafter cope. The author, a California... Read More