Bromwich delivers a probing and incisive collection of essays about culture, politics, imagination, and the war on terror. In the preface to his new collection of essays, David Bromwich states that "Moral Imagination" is “about works... Read More

Pastor’s portrait of Nazi-occupied Rome is nuanced and colored with unique characters and their fascinating circumstances. In the third book of the Martin Bora series, Ben Pastor’s "A Dark Song of Blood" follows Wehrmacht Captain... Read More

While "Mabel and Me" is a love story, it is also a tragedy, tracing comedic actress Mabel Normand’s career through the eyes of a young man. In his imaginative, highly readable novel, Jon Boorstin winds the reel back to days when... Read More

Cynical stories put a fresh twist on the Aesop fable tradition. The enjoyable "Otherwise Fables" collects three works by Oscar Mandel. It combines forty-six short fables collectively named “The Gobble-Up Stories,” along with two... Read More

It’s perhaps a bit disingenuous for Angela Pelster to declare that her marvelous collection of essays is not a memoir. She might argue that nature is the principle subject, with an emphasis on trees; trees communicating with one... Read More

Life is a journey not a race, as these playful, bounding caribou will come to learn. This thoughtful book blends clever humor and paper artwork to convey a running race between six bright orange “guys” who sprint across a green... Read More

Alas, where have all the goddesses gone? No doubt, they’re hiding from male monotheism, because scholars have long known that the primary deities of prehistory were feminine—fertile, life-giving Earth Mothers represented in countless... Read More

It’s the end of the world as we know it, but how do young people feel about it? Maxwell Neely-Cohen tells us in a character-driven tale of the apocalypse. "Echo of the Boom", by Maxwell Neely-Cohen, focuses on a generation of young... Read More