This translation of Baudelaire’s masterpiece is a successful gateway to the French poet’s dark, affecting work. Charles Baudelaire has a special place in the history of poetry as perhaps the first poet to fully embrace the darker... Read More

Not quite a chemistry textbook, this look at LSD’s discoverer delves also into what this particular formula meant for society. "Mystic Chemist" by Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmuller discusses the life of Albert Hofmann and his... Read More

Townsend writes lovingly of the Italian world in a love story about questioning of values and ideals. Love, thirty-something Jamie believes, does not give someone claim to her soul. And Jamie, the protagonist of Jackie Townsend’s novel... Read More

Bernard Boyle, that helpful alien with the power to create soothing fragrances while masquerading as an Earthling teacher, appears again in "Boyle-Breath Breathes", the charming and thought-provoking sequel to Murry L. Peters’s... Read More

“I don’t know what to make of it. Save the obvious,” a professor remarks when the hero of John R. Fogarty’s "The God Key" shows him a photograph of the strange markings on what may be the remnants of the original Ten... Read More

The White House: it is both the most recognized home in the United States and, in some ways, the most mysterious. At the forefront of American history for so many years, the mansion is infused with generations of holiday traditions, but... Read More

“Bisel was arrogant, obnoxious, and indifferent. And he was perfectly happy that he possessed all three of those attributes because he smiled when thinking of each and every one of them.” Such is the character of the admiral whose... Read More

She couldn’t explain how she ended up standing over the body of her former lover, her sister’s husband, as he lay dead in her bed. But the events of that night, impossible for her to recall, would force Kip Czermanski to question... Read More