Early in his story, Jim Weaver explains how discovering the Slow Food movement was his “aha moment,” the point he found his professional purpose as well as the reason for this book: to bring good, local, and fair food to people who... Read More

The arrival of 2012 marks two milestones in the studio glass movement: the ninetieth birthday of Harvey Kline Littleton, and the fiftieth anniversary of Littleton’s seminal glassblowing workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art. As a child... Read More

When the body of Lorne Wood, a popular teenage girl, is found alongside a towpath in a quiet middle-class community, the neighbors are understandably disturbed. But it gets worse. The corpse is found partially covered with a tarp, a... Read More

The punishing conditions in the lives of the characters in Jack Driscoll’s short story collection are matched by the harsh landscape of Michigan’s Northwest and Upper Peninsula (particularly during the long winter months). These men... Read More

If only the characters in Mullins’ stories had “measured twice, cut once,” like the advice given in the saying “three ways of the saw,” they might feel less ensnared in their current circumstances and freer to lop off what’s... Read More

Francis Spufford is a British writer with highly eccentric interests. In I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, he produced a cultural history of ice, Eskimos, and polar exploration. His previous book, Backroom Boys: The... Read More

“When my father died, he had already been gone a long time,” says the narrator of Gwenaëlle Aubry’s latest novel. Translated from the French by Trista Selous, this slim volume explores the life and personality of the narrator’s... Read More

Ernst Vogler seems to have found a dream job creating a master list of the world’s artwork based on taste, significance, and desire. Except the year is 1938, and Ernst is working for Hitler’s Sonderprojekt, collecting—or looting,... Read More