Dr. Mariana Caplan, psychotherapist and author of seven books, including Halfway Up the Mountain and award-winning Eyes Wide Open, shares her lifetime spiritual journey in search of a teacher. “The spiritual path is neverending,”... Read More

"The Blossoming of the World" has an epic title that matches its subject matter. From savoring the simple joy of eating breakfast near a sunny window to experiencing the palpable flow of divine love in a moment of dread, Brian Peterson... Read More

Ramadan, the annual month-long fast, is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith. Along with believing in the Oneness of God, praying five times daily, tithing a percent of one’s income to the needy, and making the “haj,” or... Read More

Wrenching and raw, "The Warsaw Anagrams" by Richard Zimler is an historical suspense novel as unique as it is compelling. The book’s narrator is the ibbur (Hebrew for “ghost” or “spirit”) of Erik Cohen, once a well-respected... Read More

Each year, over 100,000 people ride the Cardinal, a passenger train between New York City and Chicago operated three times weekly by Amtrak. In his first novel, Eric D. Goodman chronicles the lives of a number of these passengers as they... Read More

It is July and we are a miraculous age. With this, Caitlin Horrocks’s debut offering of stories takes off in a blaze of promise and hope, full of startling clarity and writing that pulls the reader further and further into the book... Read More

Very early in Clark Blaise’s new collection, a sociology graduate student sits in Vivek Waldekar’s California kitchen and blurts the purpose of her research: “the problems of adjustment and assimilation” for successful South... Read More

When police commander Jana Matinova arrives at a lavish birthday party for financier Oto Bogan she glimpses a notorious killer exiting only moments before gunfire erupts. Jana’s boss dismisses her siting of Makine, mostly because the... Read More