Gay, straight, or otherwise, anyone who picks up a fashion magazine or flips on the television once in a while is probably familiar with the “mainstream” gay male prototype: stunningly handsome, always fashionable, and eternally... Read More

No-bid contractor Bectburton Corporation is in the news, under suspicion of skimming government funds in an oil-for-food scandal. "The Children of Shem" follows Ahmed Alwani, a lifelong American citizen of half-Iraqi extraction, who... Read More

Protein crystallography, string theory, and RPGs: these are the things that give girl geeks an adrenaline rush. Most ride that rush alone or with male counterparts, but this collection of twenty-four essays will make them feel as though... Read More

If readers want to escape from poetry bound in orderly imagery, fed by a clean narrative line with a tidy epiphany at the end, then this new collection is for them. These poems, in the author’s signature style, are imagistically wild,... Read More

“All things being equal, Ritalin is nothing less than synthetic cocaine,” writes the author. Yet, this drug has been prescribed in record numbers to America’s youth, and is deemed an acceptable medication. More than one hundred... Read More

"The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved" is a book that could change lives. A reader who already flirts with the idea of food as political action by, for example, not eating meat or boycotting the fast food chain KFC because of its animal... Read More

Part cookbook and part history lesson, this book is a fish gastronome’s dream. The authors (Kerr is a food writer and editor of Taste Magazine; Smith is a maritime expert who edited Fodor’s Seaside America) pool their talents to... Read More

This delightful book of folktales is the product of a very successful collaboration. The illustrator, born in 1960, began life in exile in Bhutan, and from an early age yearned for his lost homeland of Tibet. In 1969, he moved to... Read More