"Never Say I’m Sorry" is a self-help resource concerned with the development of good behaviors and practices. Samer G. Touma’s direct, enlightening self-help book "Never Say I’m Sorry" argues that a life of meaning begins with... Read More

Arresting stream-of-consciousness poems reflect on the frailty and beauty of life. With striking images, invented words, and judicious use of repetition, the poems in Margaret Wesseling’s new collection, "What She Said", strike a... Read More

A tale of bondage and obedience is often classified under the encompassing catchword “erotic” simply because no critic has found a better category in which to place a story like "The Training of Lucy". Sadomasochism holds an esoteric... Read More

The title of Raymond A. Ramirez’s memoir, "My Dad the Runner", has nothing to do with track and field, marathons, or anything else relating to sports. Ramirez’s father was a runner of another kind—the kind forever running from the... Read More

In the modern world of cell phones, texting, and Twitter, “Getting in touch with nature” has become a cliche, something that sounds like the latest status update from one of several hundred Facebook friends. "The Essential Robert... Read More

Recollect 1960: a time when many artists were courting Eastern thought and deconstructing western literary formalism. Enter Margaret Avison, a poet’s poet, a metaphysical poet, perhaps an academic poet lauded for her sometimes... Read More

This young adult title is an engaging story about Miriam Bloom and her family, who set out from their difficult life in czarist Russia to travel across the ocean to America to join their father. Samuel Bloom has already made his way to... Read More

The poems of "Self-Portrait with Crayon" are haunted. There are no ghosts or goblins lurking, but rather an absent mother and Edgar Degas. The two apparitions seem unconnected until Allison Benis White skillfully commingles them. The... Read More