Of her father, Anne Cabot Wyman writes, “I want to follow his trail, find out who he was and understand how he shaped my life.” This sentence ends the first chapter of Kipling’s Cat, launching Wyman on a quest to discover her... Read More

Sheets of rain battered protagonist Kayin’s head and red Oklahoma mud clogged his nose and mouth. The racist cop had him trussed up and laying helplessly on the ground outside of his car. What began as a simple favor, giving his cousin... Read More

In the midst of the current economic crisis in the U.S., Dale B. Halling makes the bold and intriguing statement that “if the U.S. were to implement the regulatory changes suggested in this book, it would probably be the fastest method... Read More

Bad things happened in the former Yugoslavia after the collapse of the federation. "Payback for Revenge" turns over more than one rock on that war-wracked landscape, revealing foul beasts within its pages. The book begins by introducing... Read More

In the early 1600s, in the beginning of the Edo period in Japan, nearly all suitable land had been opened to cultivation; soils were beginning to exhaust and forests were showing substantial signs of degradation. The population was 12... Read More

In this collection, Tony Barnstone explores the events of World War II in the Pacific from both sides of the conflict. As his poem “Hindsight” puts it, “Seems everyone has points of view / but no one has perspective.” Juxtaposing... Read More

Janet Frame preferred her solitude to mingling with the literati, but by the time she died in 2004 she had long since secured her reputation as an author of import. Frame was regarded by many as the best New Zealand writer of her... Read More

“We are passive onlookers in a world that moves perpetually. Our only moment of creation is that 1/125th of a second when the shutter clicks, the signal is given, and the motion is stopped.”[/i] —Henri Cartier-Bresson Alfred... Read More