There’s no such thing as having just one life to live, Chittister argues—life is a mural of multiple pieces, every part serving its own purpose. And every part allows us to adapt, to change, to cope. The forty-one short chapters in... Read More

Rachel and Adam Newman, fourteen-year-old twins from New York, are shipped off to live with an unaffectionate grandmother in a peculiar English town on the moors whose insular residents share a complicated secret. Will Peterson’s... Read More

The winner of the Indie Excellence Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction steers a sure course away from the wreckage-strewn shoals common to the genre delivering a well-conceptualized story which seems to reflect real history yet... Read More

“There is always a moment when the night threatens to go aground. A closing-time moment, when the bar lights go bright and you can see who you’ve been drinking with, yelling your personal details to over the noise of the band. It... Read More

Animals in the wild frolic lustily, romping over rocks and traipsing through the woods. Zoo animals, especially those in too-small spaces, pace endlessly out of boredom, tracing the same path inside a fence. These were the images that... Read More

Several interesting health items have been made public recently by the BBC: Stressed out parents make both themselves and their kids sick. Caring for children with developmental illnesses, like Down’s or autism, weakens parents’... Read More

When Amadi defiantly tells his mother, “I’m an Igbo man of Nigeria…I’ll be a trader. I don’t need to read to do business,” the shakiness of claiming manhood when still a foot shorter than his mother jumps out at the reader... Read More

“In coffeehouses, literary schools and styles were born and discarded, and new directions in painting, music and architecture emerged.” Novelist, sportsman, and anti-Nazi journalist Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979) presents... Read More