Elizabeth Nunez, Beyond the Limbo Silence explores a young woman’s journey to maturity through fully embracing her cultural heritage. It’s 1963, and Sara, a young Trinidadian woman, is awarded a scholarship to a small college in... Read More

After winning a blue ribbon in the pet show, Winky Blue vanishes in a puff of smoke. Rosie’s feeling of pride in her pet’s achievement quickly turns to one of dismay when her parakeet does not reappear at the conclusion of a... Read More

In his introduction to this slim but feisty volume of poetry by Norman Nichols (d. 1995), who wrote under the pen name Abnorman, David Williams maps Nichols’s poetic territory: “leather sex, heavy drug trips, orgiastic nights, high... Read More

Waking Up in Time: Finding Peace in Times of Accelerating Change is aptly titled. However, a glib acceptance of this title’s meaning will only serve to humble the reader. Russell used his obvious expertise in physics, psychology and... Read More

With the vividness of description found in Fairy Tale (1998), and with a mind-shattering use of symbolism only understood after looking back upon the story as a whole, Ellis takes her readers through a weekend of events not soon... Read More

Applause to Debra Sands Miller! This book certainly educates and reeducates us on conceptions of independence and its connection to each of us as females in this society. Forget the reluctant thought that you may be diving into another... Read More

In the beginning, Sibu created the world. After making mountains, jungles and valleys, he realizes something is missing. So he creates Woman, named Sea, to attract Thunder, who might know what the earth still needs. After their marriage,... Read More

In an original and compelling story set in a small village long ago, a little boy is born, and to his adoring parents’ dismay, makes not happy baby noises, but crabby and startling ones. No medical cause can be discerned: “He just... Read More