Alexander Girard was born in New York in 1907, grew up in Florence, Italy, received a degree from Rome’s Royal School of Architecture, and subsequently began one of the design field’s most fascinating and exhaustive careers. Little... Read More

This virtuosic novel-in-stories from the late Argentinean writer Juan Jose Saer, first published in 1969, investigates a violent crime from four perspectives. Saer forgoes the expected perspectives of the victim, the orphaned daughter,... Read More

When hard-boiled private investigator Moe Prager embarks on what seems a fool’s quest to find the murderer of Alta Conseco, his ex-wife’s sister, he has just received a dire prognosis from his oncologist. Welcoming the distraction... Read More

On learning that, though elderly and barren, she’d finally have the child promised to her all those years ago, the Biblical matriarch, Sarah, laughs, surreptitiously. Whether read as bitter or joyous, nervous or skeptical, it’s in... Read More

We are all chickens. This is what William Henry Asti is saying in The Chicken Came First: A Primer for Renewing and Sustaining Our Communities. A long-time architect with a passion for sustainable development, who trained under a student... Read More

"Grow Global" by Jan Yager, an author of numerous business books and a consultant on foreign rights, is a handy all-in-one resource for business people who need to know about protocols in countries around the world. It is a book that can... Read More

Things were different back then. There was a war on, and everyone in the US was deeply involved, from rationing daily foodstuffs to—if you were Japanese—being forcefully uprooted from your home to a filthy “relocation center,”... Read More