There is something theological about David Kibbe’s approach to getting dressed. For more than forty years, while the fashion industry has busied itself inventing fresh reasons for women to distrust their bodies, David has been preaching a gentler doctrine. Love-based beauty.
Transformation forms the heart of Denise Perez’s Alchemic Healings: The Art of Remembering. Its central proposition is deceptively simple: human beings are not defective machines in need of repair. We are, she tells me, spiritual beings who have forgotten what we already are.
Judith Starkston is a classicist as well as a novelist. She is drawn to the places where archaeology, history, and myth don’t agree and imagination must take over. In Achilles’s Wife, part of her Trojan Thread series, she turns her attention to Deidameia, a princess remembered by antiquity...
Elliot Blake has spent much of his career telling stories in forms that require large numbers of people to agree on what the story is. Animation needs artists, actors, producers, and an improbable degree of patience. Prose, by comparison, requires a chair.
Hester Smith, begins in 1934 as a shy, bookish spinster delivering the post by bicycle through the fictional Dorset village of Puddlington. Then war arrives, and Hester becomes the bearer of War Department telegrams. Suddenly, the village postmistress is carrying death from house to house.
Round Up the Unusual Suspects is the third installment in Elizabeth Crowens classic-Hollywood detective series. When a stagehand is murdered on the Casablanca soundstage, Jack L. Warner calls upon private investigators Babs Norman and Guy Brandt.
Nathan Jorgenson’s new novel, Otto’s Portal, begins with a metaphysical: if the soul leaves the body at death, what keeps it attached while we are alive?
The windows of his restored, two-hundred-year-old house on an island off the coast of Maine provides an appropriately unsettled headquarters for R. John Dingle’s stories of isolation, buried guilt, and the elaborate secrets of small towns.
In Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, the mountains listen. Snow presses against the Colorado high country with the hush of an accomplice. Canyons conceal more than weather. And a dog’s lifted muzzle may be the first sign that civilization’s careful arrangements have begun to...
Dara Levan is interested in the moments when life reveals its stress fractures. The novel’s title suggests devastation, but the book, as she describes it, is not merely about being broken. It is about what a person does after the breaking.
Steven Rubin’s The Unraveling of Michael Galler begins not with a monster in the room but with an absence. Michael is eight years old when his mother dies of cancer. From that point forward the world becomes a place where invisible things gather strength in silence.
John Winn Miller’s MIRIAM IN THE SHADOWS has found in historical fiction what journalism could not always permit: the emotional weather behind the documented fact.
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