“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing,” said the British Prime Minister Neville... Read More

In juvenile and children’s books, the image of the swashbuckling, adventurous pirate is rarely tempered by the more sobering history of piracy. William Gilkerson’s newest book, "A Thousand Years of Pirates", manages to preserve the... Read More

Like Dim Sum for the intellectually curious and literary-minded, Gioia’s chronicle of the birth and death of cool samples a variety of genres and disciplines. In the end, the reader has not consumed great portions from any literary... Read More

Heather McHugh’s reviews are swarmed by words like “clever,” “play,” and “language games.” She puns, she’s wry, and she foregrounds seriousness in the title of her latest collection. Still the wit, McHugh startles with a... Read More

George Sueño, agent for the Criminal Investigation Division of the 8th U.S. Army in Seoul, makes a visit, out of curiosity, to a fortune teller named Auntie Mee. She begs Sueño to find the missing bones of a soldier who was murdered... Read More

No matter how much the Holocaust is studied, it always manages to yield more horrifying details. "Kristallnacht 1938" presents new research about the pogrom that took place in cities and towns across Germany, while challenging... Read More

Kent Nerburn’s latest book, "The Wolf at Twilight", is a combination of memoir, historical narrative, and spiritual reflection that showcases his innate flair for storytelling. In response to a summons from Dan, a tribal elder, Nerburn... Read More

Crossing from one world to another is a trope of the memoir "Ghostbread", this year’s winner of Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award for Creative Nonfiction. But Sonja Livingston is no mere tourist of the past; as... Read More