There is properly no history, only biography. Admired for his bestsellers, a novel*, Gap Creek,* and a biography of Daniel Boone, Robert Morgan subscribes to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s epigraph as he chronicles the lives of Americans who... Read More

But he will still be hunted, for all that. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. He’s all a magnet! To borrow from Herman Melville, the “accursed” things that attract us aren’t always... Read More

"The Luminist", by David Rocklin, explores the struggle to find one’s place in the world when confined by society to an ill-fitting role in which one’s dreams and abilities outshine what is acceptable—and what it means to break... Read More