Readers who feast on "The Diet Joke" will not miraculously slim down overnight, but the odds of lightening up over one’s weight loss worries are pretty darn good. Lisa Pedace hilariously highlights the contradictions of an America... Read More

The basic premise of "The Legacy" is deceptively simple: Chas Brown, a struggling graphic novelist, is the heir apparent to Simple Pleasures, the single most popular comic strip in the world. There’s only one small problem. Chas hates... Read More

"As If We Were Prey" is part of Wayne State University’s “Made in Michigan” book series, of which Michael Delp is a co-editor. It’s a small book in stature, comprising eight short stories in 120 pages, but communicates a larger... Read More

Readers meet up once again with Rex Graves in the third mystery to follow the Scottish barrister with a knack for getting involved in the ultimate crime. Rex is on his way out of the beautiful Scottish countryside, leaving behind Helen,... Read More

“Trouble with webs. When you’re in one, you can’t see past the next knot,” laments private investigator Philip Noir, the lead character in Robert Coover’s gritty and compelling novel filled with danger, death, and dames. In... Read More

A select few literary greats had the privilege of loving so deeply, so intensely, that their lives were never again mundane. Inspired by her lover Henri de Latouche, a prominent man of letters in early nineteenth-century France,... Read More

A book that foregrounds the importance of literature and language, Barnardo Atxaga’s "Obabakoak" is an achievement. Its methods are varied, and much is bound by its spine—wit, fiction, autobiography, metafiction, explication,... Read More

A winning combination of verse, factual language, and beautiful illustrations that describe the mysterious migration patterns of animals from loggerhead turtles to monarch butterflies to ruby-throated hummingbirds to caribou. Resources... Read More