There is no doubt that we live in precarious times. Pick up the newspaper or turn on the television, and at least half a dozen news stories will be about man-made tragedies or natural disasters that cause the deaths of thousands. "A... Read More

Looking back over the past decade presents a picture of the United States that is troubling at best. It was a time of both international and domestic crisis-and also a time, according to Bromwell Ault, when the government generally... Read More

In Richard Curtin’s first novel, a rambling story of the Vietnam War, David, a sheltered American youth, is deployed to a division based outside the city of Da Lat. Upon his arrival, David finds himself lost and begs a ride to the Fort... Read More

When her son, Jeffrey, then twenty-four years old, called her one evening in December 2006 and uttered his “famous” words: “Mom, I’ve been thinkingÂ…” Karen Dye-Walker knew that something was about to happen. She didn’t... Read More

Art books are expected to be sumptuous, large, and expensive. Encyclopedias generally bring to mind multi-volume fact forests-and the school projects that feed on them-that make students cringe. Handmade in India is both of these, and... Read More

“.. If I were a drum / in a past life, the loose skin of my palms / would have woven into a colorful fabric. / If I was a drum in a past life / you must have been a stream / washing the wounds,” Medrano writes. A drum indeed-in this,... Read More

Rien Ne Va Plus tricks its reader by a rapid mid-point shift from realism to metafiction-but only after the reader has fallen in love with Karapanou’s writing, and her inimitable main character. No sooner does the reader sympathize... Read More

With the publication of Interference, Richard Hoffman has put perspicacity to page. His theories of gender are uttered in the lives of fully drawn characters. Like a familiar walk on different days, these stories tread over the same... Read More