The latest entry in John Ringos Posleen War series reunites family members in a common cause against an enemy more deadly than the Posleen. General Michael O’Neal is taken prisoner, and his entire Fleet Strike ACS unit-20,000 troops-is... Read More

Written by two men who hold masters degrees from the University of Southern California film school, "Save the Whales Please" is a movie between book covers with short scenes that end where the director—Quentin Tarantino—might say,... Read More

Recent explosions, assassinations, and kidnappings in Iraq are the latest gruesome outgrowths of the fourteen-centuries-old divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims, which began in the wake of the Prophet Muhammad’s death in the year 632.... Read More

Students often speak of wanting to “be a writer,” glossing over the vast amount of doing required to occupy that particular state of being. The contributors to this volume agree that writers don’t necessarily choose to be writers;... Read More

Form in poetry can be very powerful. This book will either introduce readers to the Haibun form of poetry or remind readers of its power. The author has selected a Japanese prose-haiku combination to echo her own interior journey. On... Read More

In the spring of 1888, Horace Traubel, 29, began almost daily visits with Walt Whitman, who was almost 69. For the next four years until Whitman’s death in 1892, Traubel played Boswell to Whitman’s Samuel Johnson, recording the daily... Read More

“Piano playing, be it ever so faultless, must not be considered sufficient.” Addressed to the Mozart performer, this is Brendel’s piece of advice in his first essay. Given that, one could say the famous pianist proceeds in the... Read More

“In West Virginia a good story takes awhile, / and if it has people in it, you have to swear / that it is true,” Maggie Anderson confides in “Long Story,” one of the hundreds of poems editors Smith and Judd—both West Virginia... Read More