Glib humor gives way to serious discussion of historic and modern treatment of Indians. “Most of the history of Indians in North America has been forgotten,” says Canadian (and Cherokee) author Thomas King. “What we are left with... Read More

"Waist Away" reads like one of those long, candid conversations you’ve always wanted to have with your family doctor. The kind you never get to enjoy because everyone’s watching the clock and other patients are waiting. But if you... Read More

Heroic couplet-form dialogue brings an epic feel to this survey of war and human nature’s destiny. No one is more aware of the paradoxes inherent in war than its principals. In this epic survey, Richard Lyons takes to battlefields and... Read More

“Whimsical” is a term often slighted, or used to slight, poetry—implying insignificance or a lack of poetic thought or skill. But whimsical perfectly describes Jonarno Lawson’s Down in the Bottom of the Box, a collection of... Read More

R. Murray Schafer is a brilliantly talented painter, musician, and writer—and he knows it, his ego exposed in this otherwise wonderfully written memoir. "My Life on Earth and Elsewhere" traces his growth as an artist, beginning with... Read More

As E. A. Rappaport’s "The Lesser Evil" opens, Toth, a talented young wizard, seeks to persuade the stodgy Wizard’s Council to recognize his new discovery—a method of animating dead skeletons—as a valid new “school” of magic.... Read More

“Dumb cowards live longer than smart heroes,” quips reluctant spy Hal Schroeder as his early Cold War mission to Romania starts to go sour. The main character and first-person narrator of John Knoerle’s American Spy Trilogy is,... Read More

In the age of the Internet, more literary works are available to more people than ever before. The problem with this overabundance of riches, which applies to poetry as much as any other genre, is that there isn’t enough time for most... Read More