“California is a fable. A fantasy. A fiction,” Natalie Singer writes of her adopted home. “A metamorphosis.” So it was for the explorers and prospectors who first clambered over the Sierra to find it; so it remains for every wave... Read More

At the heart of any search for meaning lie several basic questions that have spurred seekers throughout the ages: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? How shall I live, and why? Rabbi Rami Shapiro has addressed these... Read More

This is certainly one way to go out: “My casket shall be filled to the rim with 2005 Saint-Émilion.” But in Michel Bruneau’s "The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer" that is only the beginning of the requests from recently... Read More

Writers eager to make an impact in the billion-dollar book industry will benefit from this latest installment of the publisher’s “How to” series. It’s a handy, plainspoken manual with a creative approach to the literature... Read More

With the New Age movement comes the changing role of the artist. As spirituality encounters an ever-widening range of definition, not limited to piety and intellectualism, the imagery and symbolism conveyed by artists are increasingly... Read More

Sailor, painter, journalist, historian, adventurer and author of ten non-fictional nautical works, William Gilkerson brings together his many talents and knowledge in this altogether satisfying seafaring tale. Ultimate Voyage combines... Read More