Author Michael Parenti offers compelling historical evidence that the world’s religions have “served as instruments for promoting intolerance, autocracy, and atrocity,” and details how, in order to cope with “the brutish... Read More

On Saturday morning, February 27, 1943, workers on the day shift at Bearcreek, Montana’s Smith Mine had been on the job for barely a couple of hours when something went terribly wrong. Suddenly, the author writes, “men battled... Read More

“The morphogenic Field of Compassion is here…People all over the world have witnessed its coming. We can recognize it, describe it, and begin to live it with intention,” asserts Judy Cannato, who calls for a union of the concept of... Read More

Frank Meeink once fit the American neo-Nazi archetype perfectly: he had the convictions, the clothes, the swastika tattoo, and the knack for perpetrating violence that have made this underground culture infamous. Surprisingly, today... Read More

Poets compare love with roses—but roses possess thorns. Writers often imply life always ends up all right—it doesn’t. "Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger", by Lee Smith, offers fourteen short stories about overcoming the... Read More

Olga Slavnikova’s novel 2017*, set one hundred years after the 1917 Russian Revolution, is an imagined amalgamation of Russia’s near future and its conflicted past. The fictional Riphean mountain region, where the book takes place,... Read More

A secret diary, written on papyrus scrolls to a beloved deceased sister, re-imagines the life of Cecilia, a young Roman martyred for being a secret Christian. In Catholic tradition, Cecilia is renowned for her beautiful voice and the... Read More

Translated from the French, "Zarma Folktales of Niger" captures the essence of the oral tradition in English, retelling these West African stories of animals and the people who interact with them with clarity and humor. Readers of all... Read More