A biographical story and a teaching experiment, this text muses that art might be the key to maintaining balance through hardships. An esteemed English professor casts aside the standard curriculum, using his own story of love lost and... Read More

Within The Seven Malas are an imaginative handful of affairs and one glowing true-love story. John Leslie Lange’s novel The Seven Malas is part midlife makeover, part male fantasy, and part earnest quest. Thirtysomething James Wilder... Read More

Dominic Bulone’s memoir "Near Misses" deals with the fragility of life in the face of death. Dominic Bulone Jr.’s religious memoir "Near Misses" reads like a series of snapshots from a life defined by near-death experiences. Bulone... Read More

"Visions" is a polished detective story centered on the cost of doing the right thing. S. T. McCrea’s captivating paranormal thriller, "Visions", pits a supernaturally gifted school teacher against the physical embodiment of evil. A... Read More

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of esoteric seekers calling themselves The Miracle Club explored principles and techniques to affect reality through thought. Mitch Horowitz, a writer on alternative spirituality and a New... Read More

If you are this, you can’t be that: It’s a ubiquitous assumption in our oversimplified, 140-character-driven world. In When One Religion Isn’t Enough, Duane R. Bidwell explores spiritual fluidity, unpacking our assumption that all... Read More

Maryam Mafi’s luminous translation brings the Persian poet Rumi’s distinctive and timeless Sufi lessons to a new audience, transforming the original verses into prose that conveys the vibrancy of the medieval setting while also... Read More

"The 53rd Card" is a heavy but rewarding spiritual fantasy. Virginia Weiss’s intensely character-driven "The 53rd Card" chronicles a damaged woman’s attempts to understand her life’s meaning. A life filled with trauma and loss... Read More