The Creative Way by Steven B. Wills is a portfolio of digital images. But it is first and foremost a meditation on creativity as an act of resilience, remembrance, and transformation. It combines photography, digital enhancement, abstract experimentation, and AI-assisted imagery. This allows Wills to...

The Warrior in the Garden by Keith Thorn is a beautiful, reflective book that narrates the story of young Kaori. She starts her journey under the watchful guidance of her Sensei in a dojo. Most stories about any martial art focus on the discipline of...

In the hilarious and high-energy pages of The Dad Jokes Haggadah by Martin Bodek, the Passover Seder gets a much-needed injection of humor. This isn’t just your standard religious text; it’s a full-on celebration of the classic, pun-heavy "dad joke" style applied to the entire...

The Geography of Desire: A Memoir of West Africa by Linda Gambill follows a young woman who leaves a complicated life in Tennessee to join the Peace Corps in The Gambia in the late 1970s. Drawn by a need for change and independence, she arrives...

Tortured Soles by Fran Weinstein is a memoir from her childhood to retirement. Growing up in New York in a dysfunctional family, she was frequently subjected to her parents’ constant fights. Her mother, a refugee from Europe, suffered bouts of depression, and her father was...

Have you tried true Japanese cuisine? Have you wondered about its simplicity? In fact, as Aurelian Marchesi explains in The Logic of Japanese Cuisine, it’s actually refined, possibly described as minimalist. When presented with the fine makings of Japanese cuisine, one might feel the quantity...

Susan Lorraine Kadera writes about her personal experiences in recording her lineage exploration in The Tapestry of My Ancestry: A Journey Through DNA, Ancestry, and Spiritual Reflection. Although DNA testing revealed numerous connections to many nationalities, science did little to reveal the spiritual ties the...

Luke Stoffel’s The Third Person: Rewriting Him (The Warboy Chronicles) is a genre-blending travel memoir and emotional self-investigation that follows a man unraveling in the aftermath of heartbreak. The narrative begins with Luke’s breakup with “Warboy,” a relationship defined by absence, longing, and unfinished endings,...

The Woman in the Third Floor Front by Richard Scharine is a collection of prose pieces beginning with a series of short stories and followed by musings about his European ancestors. The author traces his life from a midwestern boyhood, through his career as a...

Three young rebellious artists established the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in London in 1848. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt. They rejected the rigidity of the Royal Academy's standards, which were rooted in the Italian High Renaissance. Rossetti, Millais, and...