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

When Betsy Franco’s young Ovid reflects Seems like we’re all just groping our way through a labyrinth fighting our personal minotaurs morphing into who we really are like it or not he seems to be chan-neling his namesake sharing the... Read More

Too many fine musicians fail to achieve their dreams of becoming professionals. The problem is not their skill level. Their shortcomings include inadequate self-promotion, a lack of supportive audiences sufficient to sustain an income... 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

Electronic means of communication have their advantages, speed and wide distribution chief among them. At times, however, today’s technology can feel slippery, abstract, and anonymous, disconnected from real humans or anything humans... Read More

In Scroogenomics, Ebenezer progeny and Ehrenkranz Professor and Chair of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania applies the “dismal science” to the joyous season of heralding angels and... Read More

If Chris Welles Feder’s new memoir were just another biography of the entertainment giant Orson Welles, it would still be cause for celebration among scholars and fans of the man and his work. Welles Feder has presented us more than a... Read More

In the 1940s Chicago Union Station handled more than 300 trains and 100,000 passengers a day, writes journalism and nature writing teacher at Northern Michigan University James McCommons. He discusses railroading in America, and, while... Read More