In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...

One of the key questions that The Final Retreat poses is connected with the pursuit of peace and harmony: the quest, however, is inseparable from struggles and frustrations...

Narratively arranged, these poems offer up an evocative and chilling imagining of life and times of Holmes along with his wives, victims, and accomplices...

Circe is an immortal naiad, the daughter of the Sun God, Helios...

I spoke with Andrea on the heels of her trip to India to attend the International Buddhist Conclave...

Lindsay Townsend is doing well at her high school in Wollongong, Australia...

Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...

That the Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar is so well remembered today for his achievements as a general is largely due to his skills as a writer...

Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teaming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, two young immigrants struggle to survive...

Since being sold into slavery as a child and working her way up to becoming concubine and mistress for several different men, Lady Juliana's survival has depended on her allure...

In most alien invasion stories, mankind and the invaders battle to the death. In Thompson’s tale, however, there is more inter- than intra-planetary conflict,..

Henri is a middle-aged doctor, one of the few employed people left in the U.S, though the reader suspect his job might be in danger...

An American in Haiti....

Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...

Mike Chen’s debut novel Here and Now and Then (MIRA, 2019) is a portrait of patience...

Ian Graham, a British war correspondent, is chasing an escaped Nazi known only as die Jaegerin, the Huntress...

Walker faces the challenges of sustainability with deep humor, deeper insight, and an abiding sympathy for what it means to be all-too-human in your love for other humans and the struggling earth we all share...

Building from her brother's death and journeying through her grieving process, Burns guides readers into her heart and back out...

On one side of the conflict is a secret sect, the Crucibulum...

An 8-year-old awaits her father’s return from the war...

As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...

Although World War II has long been a favorite subject in both literature and history, a new interest seems to have developed in the multiple roles played by women during the war...

"The Night Tiger" is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a historical novel, and a love story...

Dayne has the highest respect for the order he’s joined, the Tarians...