The basic tenets of Islam remain mysterious to many Americans despite the intense media focus on Muslims since September 11, 2001. Even fewer people are familiar with how mainstream Muslims view the Bible or how they apply the Quran and... Read More

“You’re here to learn about Texas history, a subject that can be fascinating and compelling,” states Mr. Barrington, Hannah’s seventh-grade teacher. “By the end of the first semester, you’ll be experts on all the events... Read More

These poems contain that feeling of inevitability only possible in retrospect. The poet is in control as she reflects on a failed marriage and its accoutrements; for example, when she asks in “Attar”: “What can one do, / when one... Read More

This provocative compilation of vintage photographs of Plains Indians and selections of their oratory and writings is the latest publication in the Sacred Worlds series, which seeks to illuminate universal religious themes and... Read More

There is a special class of book, the Book That Changes Lives. Published in 1948, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, bible of conservationists, ecologists, and nature lovers, is one such life-changer, a book as significant to... Read More

Of all the places one might expect to find a Van Gogh, a Brooklyn gas station probably isn’t one of them. Over the course of his thirty-five years as an undercover investigator with the FBI’s art theft division, Thomas McShane has... Read More

Rudy Gurley quotes the famous Baptist Preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Many Men owe their grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.” In author Rudy Gurley’s memoir "A Caribbean Tale" that quote would be an... Read More

Long before South Beach became a famous international tourist destination, Miami Beach was a renowned entertainment center, filled with celebrities, gaudy hotels, gamblers, restrictions, prejudice, and racism. Decade by decade, from the... Read More