Charles L. Rhykerd, faculty advisory and coach of the Purdue Trap and Skeet Club for twenty-one years, has well-warranted pride for his team. The fledging club, founded by a handful of shotgun enthusiasts in 1978, has won 142 national... Read More
Widely acknowledged as the greatest adventure strip ever created, Prince Valiant is also arguably the best comic strip in that medium’s history. However, reprint collections have failed to truly capture the beauty and consummate... Read More
The struggles of nineteen-year-old Sophia Alface, a real-life landmine victim from Mozambique and depicted in Mankell’s previous novels Secrets in the Fire and Playing with Fire, continue in this equally eye-opening mix of “truth and... Read More
The grief unique to women plays a central role in Bloch’s fourth collection "Blood Honey", here cast in muted shades of irony: “We were sitting on my sofa with his dead wife. / (A good-looking woman, he allowed.)” But the pain of... Read More
The trade route that connected the East with the West was not a single road but a network of land and sea paths: the Yellow River to the Ganges, Athens to Beijing, the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. Its travelers were as varied as the... Read More
Hafnor and Crawford knew they’d struck a vein (in the mining sense) when they published their first book in 2005, Strange But True, Colorado. Their latest covers all sorts of fact-based weirdness in all 50 states, beginning with Porky... Read More
Everybody recognizes the Jesus Fish on the back of a car; a legged version with “Darwin” on the fish’s belly instead of “Jesus” is also available. Continuing the clash between creationists and evolutionists is an even larger... Read More
J.P. Hansen, founder and president of Hansen Executive Search, draws on his experience as an executive recruiter, combining typical career search advice with a touch of spiritual “think positive” and “follow your dream”... Read More