Isolato reminds its readers that poetry is not anything else. Not narrative, not images, certainly not ideas, although Szporluk’s poems include compressed narratives and intense imagery and overflow with all sorts of wild, disturbing... Read More
“The greatest foreign policy miscalculation” is what the author, a professor at the Naval War College, calls the Vietnam War. Although hardly a startling observation, few, if any, historians have surpassed Kaiser’s meticulous... Read More
Compo’s prolific, yet easily accessible writing style offers an exciting, swashbuckling epic reminiscent of the timeless tales of Robin Hood. Her story is peopled with good-guy pirates, bad-guy land barons, a society of women... Read More
A historian who digs beneath the surface, L’Aloge has brought to light many previously unpublished tidbits that created the Old West as we learn more about the truth today. Reports generated from old journals, historical accounts and... Read More
It would be difficult to imagine three more different composers than Sun Ra, Duke Ellington and Anthony Braxton. Sun Ra with his Cosmic Arkestra and his claims of coming from Saturn inhabits the fringe, science fiction edge of American... Read More
“For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means,” stated Edgar Cayce in one of his trance-state readings. This is an example from one of... Read More
The things that count are not those distilled in the cask of self. Instead, according to Meilaender, they are those things tempered by “a truth with hard surfaces cling to and stand under.” The result of living in relation to God as... Read More
The setup may seem like typical mystery fare: Gillian is home on sabbatical to take care of her aging mother; Gillian’s boyfriend works for Scotland yard; a girl is found murdered in the town; the town outcast is accused; and Gillian... Read More