This is an inventive reminder that the mind is a powerful tool. An interesting approach to achieving your best identity, The Art of Becoming: Quantum Leaping into Your Future Self by Dr. Corey Lee Lewis offers a plethora of mindfulness... Read More

The book is especially deft at conveying the peculiar isolation of childhood. Life in New Jersey before America’s entrance into WWII is the setting for Frances Webb’s "Come to a Memory", a portrait of childhood told from the... Read More

Orit Gidali’s poetry reflects segments of the contemporary Israeli psyche: awareness of fragility; a ferocious love for a complex inheritance; and a desire for the cessation of violence, as much for one side as for the other.... Read More

Sexy meets satisfying in "Perfect Pairing", Rachel Spangler’s latest novel. Hal Orion, a “blue collar meets bleu cheese” food truck chef hits the big time unexpectedly. Mixed in with the other fruits of her success is Quinn... Read More

This is one hell of a ride, and it begs for a sequel. "It Happened One Doomsday", by Laurence MacNaughton, is a fast-paced race against the apocalypse in which insecure, neophyte sorceress and shopkeeper Dru must rise to the occasion if... Read More

The courage of a dying woman who still seeks her own spiritual truths highlights her humanity. Based on the writer Katherine Mansfield’s short but intense residence at the Prieuré at Avon, which taught an esoteric spiritual discipline... Read More

The stories are what they need to be, and if that involves a doglike alien’s wordless meeting with a shepherd, so be it. Jacob Weisman settles—or perhaps provokes—the debate about what constitutes literature, and what represents... Read More

Osamu Tezuka was a towering figure in Japanese manga and anime, referred to as the God of Manga and Japan’s Walt Disney. Despite his importance in the development of these fields, Tezuka’s name and work are not well known outside his... Read More