Walt Whitman’s Affirmative Power
At one point in What Is the Grass, Mark Doty asks, “How would you ever understand the places to which […]
A Vital Contribution to the History of Baseball
Rich Westcott, one of the leading experts on the history of baseball in Philadelphia tackles two important but understudied topics […]
Fairytales with a Grownup Rage
The first thing to tell you is that these are not fairytales for children. Christina Rosso’s She is a Beast bristles with angry […]
The Major Virtues of Lynn Levin’s New Poetry Collection
The major virtue of Lynn Levin’s The Minor Virtues is that you read it, cover to cover, with a smile. Not that poetry […]
A Vampire Tackles Trauma and Responsibility
Andrew Katz’s The Vampire Gideon’s Suicide Hotline & Halfway House For Orphaned Girls is a look into whether or not […]
A Witty Comedic Fantasy
The damsel in distress waiting for her knight in shining armor to come save her isn’t anything new. The princess […]
The Sixers’ Process, from Start to Finish
Fans of the Philadelphia 76ers and the NBA more generally know The Process as the extreme rebuilding plan, put in […]
A Masterful Encounter with a Great Mind and Greater Suffering
The beauty and tragedy of Alan Turing … the brilliance and difference of his mind and spirit, right from childhood […]
An Authentic World War II Mystery
Ed Ruggero’s Blame the Dead takes place during the Allied invasion of Sicily in August of 1943, an event that […]
Delightfully Perplexed and Transfixed by The Sacramento of Desire
Sacramento of Desire invites us to hang out as Bloch weaves—and to get woven in ourselves.