"Conjuring My Leafy Muse" is an intensely moving collection of poetry by a writer whose voice is fresh. "Conjuring My Leafy Muse" is, in numerous ways, a marvel of incantation and lyricism, a weaving of the supernatural, horrific,... Read More

Religio-Spiritual Development Foundation Chronicle 1 is a curious work, unifying in intent and informative in practice. A comprehensive, purposeful gloss on religions from various regions, traditions, cultures, and orientations, the book... Read More

Noir novel of an actor navigating Paris rekindles the humor and intellect of the genre. This curiously dry, reasonably entertaining novel is clearly an attempt to replicate or comment on noir-ish hardboiled fiction. It is narrated by an... Read More

From slick covered stacks of capes and masks a boy begins the walk to school with ganglions blitzing comic book kinetics. One step bat, one step spider, fists popping claws, carrying shields and totem boomerangs, he walks the rooftop... Read More

Robert Joseph Foley’s The Consequences of Playing God: Tales from Lingor High School is a sly, masterful, acrid, and wrenching collection of short stories. Comparisons to the work of, say, Flannery O’Connor and Sherwood Anderson seem... Read More

Istvan Hornyak’s Death and Transfiguration: A Tragic Drama in Five Acts is an operatic, intriguing, somewhat misguided, and turgid retelling of the tale of Faust. According to legend, Dr. Henry Faust is a sagacious, peerless scholar... Read More

Jan van Tuyl is not a professional biblical expert, but he is a dedicated, intelligent, and thorough scholar who has gone out of his way to include both secular and spiritual texts, well-known and rare treatises, and modern and ancient... Read More

A supposed benefactor seeks to ruin the lives of two friends; a leader of the African American community sacrifices his daughter to a higher cause; a scholarship student becomes a shill for a veiled racist enterprise; and a lynching... Read More