It is the Mother from Hell who opens this novel as her son Gustav arrives at JFK Airport to spend his va-cation with his family in upstate New York. As they set off across Manhattan, Mother has words for Gustav, his Sephardic wife, his... Read More

A fugue is a musical term for a style of composition written in a fixed number of parts or “voices.” Here in Michael Brown’s She and I: A Fugue the author employs a multitude of lyrical techniques such as line breaks rhythm and... Read More

Ernst, a little blue crocodile, loves to ride the carousel in the park. While his favorite wooden animal is the honey-colored dog with the moveable tail that wags, his more pragmatic big brother, Sol, pronounces that the tail is simply... Read More