In a 1998 article in UNLV Magazine, the author claimed, “This is unusual, I know, but I never revise. If I write a poem and it’s not there, I don’t go back and try to refine the experience because that wouldn’t be true to time.... Read More

The Native Americans have the wily coyote. African tales feature Anansi the spider. There are Irish stories about mischievous leprechauns. And apparently, high in the Andes Mountains, there is a guinea pig that can outwit a fox. From the... Read More

Like Tess of the d’Urbervilles or Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, this Victorian novel is replete with plot twists, years—long detours, providential meetings, villainy, and a great deal of drama. It differs from most other... Read More

To smell, taste, or chew this publication, the mind keeps retrieving the word “clever.” The author, using a glossy periodical format, parodies the style and contents of elite monthly journals. There are selections ranging from Afghan... Read More

For those who can think of nothing better to do on a free afternoon than wander in the local cemetery, travel offers all kinds of possibilities for funerary discovery. There’s the chance for an impromptu picnic among the gravestones in... Read More

California’s embarrassingly idyllic climate, fertile soil, and rich bounty of growing things echo some of the great wine-growing regions of Europe, but it’s only in the last ten years that California wines weren’t just wistful... Read More

“Trauma (is) a crucible for developing excellence … through which we turn life’s wounds into gifts.” Sustaining that positive note throughout, Gravitz offers a guidebook for the families of those suffering from... Read More