Do not presume to anticipate the course of these deft poems. Rather, know that each one acts as ballast against lyric predictability, nailing the dimwitted reader and the expert alike with a sure blow between the eyes. These are... Read More

Cloaked in mystery and wonder when first performed three decades ago, the coronary bypass has become a routine medical procedure-yet it still amounts to a chillingly close encounter with death. Surgeons slice and hack their way through... Read More

Reading Ireland: True Stories of Life on the Emerald Isle is a surprisingly authentic substitute for a trip to Ireland, at least temporarily. The amazing thing about Travelers’ Tales Guides anthologies, collections of stories centered... Read More

Gardner’s brisk, wry voice packs a plethora of information gathered by Rash into an all too brief amount of time. As Rash’s recollection of anecdotes and historical facts spring humorously to life, the traditional view of history as... Read More

Germain’s sequel Night of Amber sweeps along in the same strong story current started in her first novel, The Book of Nights. The protagonist, Charles Victor Peniel, sometimes known as Night-of amber-Wind-of fire, proclaims himself... Read More

Fifty-two years after the boyish-looking pilot, Amelia Earhart, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, mysteriously vanished on an attempt at a record-breaking flight around the world, readers of all ages are still fascinated with her story. It... Read More

“They let him talk, blocking his stories from the path to their hearts,” writes the narrator in “Hayuta’s Engagement Party,” one of the 12 stories in this first English translation of Liebrecht’s jolting yet beautifully... Read More