“I am still facing my mother, who is still facing me, and for one last second, we look at each other without anything wrong between us.” Van Meter was five years old when he shared this moment with his mother. He had just asked his... Read More

Larry Millett continues his Sherlock Holmes and amateur detective Shadwell Rafferty series with this novel, set in the early twentieth century in St. Louis, Missouri. Well-known financier Artemus Dodge has apparently been murdered in his... Read More

With conflicts in oil-producing countries, natural disasters worldwide, and economic uncertainty in the US, we’re living in delicate times, believes first-time author Wendy Brown. Rather than simply hoping for improvement, she argues,... Read More

“Do we have a purpose?” “Are we capable of unconditional love?” “What is God’s role in our lives?” These are the types of questions Tom Milton explores in his fifth novel "A Shower of Roses". But perhaps Milton’s most... Read More

In his essay “Memoir,” for the New York Times Book Review section last January, Neil Genzlinger called for “A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up,” thus beginning a terse review of four recently published... Read More

A good poem, it seems, is a delicately, perfectly crafted lie: a thin thread that coils around itself, telling a story that relates both to itself and to the world it knows we must believe in. A good poem leads us down a trail through... Read More

Research on the different functions dictated by the left or right side of the brain has been abundant, particularly in the last decade as those in neuroanatomy and neuroscience work to map the nervous system and the human brain. But... Read More

With "Beasts of New York", the world’s most immortalized city acquires yet another fascinating identity. On the surface of this adventure story is a landscape populated by wild animals—largely squirrels, rats, cats, and birds, from... Read More