In this novel, the Italian author (who died in 1990) writes extraordinary prose about Silvio, an ordinary man who wants to create a masterpiece. Before Silvio confronts his lack of talent, he blames his poor literary output on lack of... Read More

“It could just be that we all secretly envy the French people,” F. Patrick Butler suggests in the introduction to this spicy buffet of biography, history, cultural critique, and fiction. Butler proceeds to celebrate the genius of ten... Read More

Anime and manga began as a world apart. Removed from Western culture and the “real world,” saturated with Japanese exotisme, they were, nonetheless, often part of American science fiction conventions, where fans garbed as their... Read More

Take a futuristic world and mix in two parts honorable samurai, a dash of a Western motif, and two reliable albeit eccentric sidekicks, and pray it will come out to be anything akin to this graphic novel. In the “far future,”... Read More

When we read about life in places such as Baghdad or Gaza most of us cannot imagine a life under occupation. Lois Glass Webb’s second novel The Spectre of Death Rode the Land: A Southern Family Caught Up in the Union Invasion of... Read More