The widely accepted estimate that forty-eight million Americans fish for fun may or may not be accurate. After all, a skeptic might ask, who’s actually doing the counting out there on the countless scenic rivers and lakes where the... Read More

It’s obvious that a lack of sleep leaves a person feeling tired and prone to impatience and crankiness. Less obvious is that a five-hour night of sleep leaves a person 50 percent more likely to overeat. Sleeping less than four hours a... Read More

It’s obvious that a lack of sleep leaves a person feeling tired and prone to impatience and crankiness. Less obvious is that a five-hour night of sleep leaves a person 50 percent more likely to overeat. Sleeping less than four hours a... Read More

With the growing shift toward eating organic, local food isn’t just a trend, but a fundamental change in the way we think about agriculture and our food, posit editors Irene Reti and Sarah Rabkin. For the roots of this movement, the... Read More

I loved Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, seeing myself in his wonderful stories of faraway places, strange-looking people, and magnificent adventures. I wanted my own magnificent adventure, just like them. Jack Sligo, a fifteen-year-old Irish... Read More

"What the Heart Knows" is an upbeat novel, billed by the author as “small town fiction,” and the first book of Purl’s Milford-Haven series. The book opens powerfully with the appearance of the first of many strongly developed... Read More

A lightning rod for the imagination, German artist Blexbolex gives us People, a collection of silk-screened figures engaged in activities fascinating and mundane. A label identifies each subject; images on opposite pages create a... Read More

A tiny seed dares to be different from his brethren, taking on attributes of the creatures he most admires: a peacock’s feather to become beautiful, tiger’s stripes for bravery, and the trunk of an elephant fashioned from a blade of... Read More