Mal, the leader of the group of six adults, one child and one infant, is dying, and the old woman is doing what she can to keep him alive. “Be [...]

There is something very human about the Old Testament prophet Elijah whose name means “YHVH is my God.” He is elusive like ruah (wind, spirit), writes Daniel C. Matt, an [...]

Stewart Sterling’s 1955 murder mystery Alibi Baby had a striking cover of a blonde showing a lot of skin, asleep or dead in bed, and a blurb from the New [...]

If you pick up a copy of Daniel G. Brinton’s Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, originally published in 1890 and now again in print from Northfield-based [...]

Chicago’s Haymarket Books promotes The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez as an “easy-to-use guide [that] explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify [...]

Martin Luther, the world-changing religious reformer who sparked the Reformation, was also “a great hater, unrelenting in his hatred of the papacy,” writes historian Lyndal Roper in her book Living [...]

Book review: “Wild in the World” by John Donovan Published more than half a century ago, John Donovan’s Wild in the World is an exquisitely imagined, delicately rendered novel, terse [...]

Fredric Brown’s murder mystery The Fabulous Clipjoint, first published in 1947 and reissued last December by Penzler Publishers, was good enough to win an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. [...]

Thomas Cromwell, newly named Earl of Essex, is walking at three in the afternoon to the council chamber with one councilor Audley at his side, another Fitzwilliam behind him.  Norfolk [...]