Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds and "Radical" Ways of Reading and Learning
Too many people in this country do not read beyond required assignments in schools. There are a number of reasons for this dearth of...
Stepping Back in Time to Understand our Contemporary American Scene with Karen Foresti Hempson's
Lucy, child of Italian immigrant parents, spent hot summers picking in the bean fields, but she gave her heart to immigrant child...
Metaphoric Threads Weaving Life’s Silk Kimono, A review of Amy L. George’s The Stopping Places
Amy L. George gently invites readers to pause and take in moments with the poet’s persona as she stops at places along life’s journey....
“A Strange, Fantastic Notion”
A review of Seth Rogoff’s Thin Rising Vapors
At the beating heart of Seth Rogoff’s allusion-dense mystery Thin Rising Vapors is the intractable question: “why does man take his own...
First, the Creative Act
A review of Seth Rogoff’s First, the Raven, A Preface First, the Raven: A Preface is a small book in terms of physical size, but its...
All Those Lilting Tongues, a work by Theresa Hamman
Could there be a poetry chapbook more apt for the moment and Me, Too movement than Theresa Hamman’s All Those Lilting Tongues? Hamman’s...
The Surprising Transformative Power of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel Eileen is a Pen/Hemingway winner and was on the short list for the Man Booker Prize, so I opened the book with...
“Only by Your Silence”
A review of Phoebe Nilsen’s Without a Kiss
Phoebe Nilsen’s Without a Kiss is a sublimely cohesive chapbook of poetry on what is missing: whether is it that kiss, “three little...
“The Trick of Art” in The Last Mosaic
Structured as secular epiphanies, each set apart by the tilde, the text of The Last Mosaic reads, indeed, like a “circus,” as the authors...
Penny's World of Messy, Lovely, Dangerous Human Interactions
Review of Still Life by Louise Penny Review by Nancy Dafoe I must begin with a confession: I’ve been told by a couple of people that my...
