“Should We Go Extinct?" by Todd May The title is a question that the book never definitively answers. As the author gyrates back and forth between yes and no and maybe and maybe not, he leaves it to you to decide for yourself.  I marvel at the brilliance of his mind and the eloquence of his prose, which captivated my interest all the way to the concluding chapter. I had anticipated that a chapter titled, “Conclusion,” would provide a conclusive answer. Alas, that chapter was

Madness by Jim Mason www.JimMason.info/madness A PORTRAIT of the AUTHOR as a YOUNG FARMER Allured by its provocative title, “Madness,”...

Meathooked by Marta Zaraska Meathooked  “is an investigation into why humans love eating meat.” (page 6) The author, Marta Zaraska, calls...

“Age Like a Yogi” by Victoria Moran Enumerated as 75 years, three-quarters of a century is a nice roundish number that makes reaching the...

Protest Kitchen by Carol Adams and Virginia Messina This book’s writing is visionary, as expected, but this book’s formatting is...

The Schopenhauer Cure, an historical novel by Irvin Yalom Exquisitely written with every word perfectly chosen, the book starts out...

“The Only Empty Place,” poetry by Richard Lehnert Poetry’s curt shorthand sometimes presents deep beauty or other times expresses profound truths that often evade capture in verbose prose. The poems in The Only Empty Place  aim to express truth, not beauty. If poetry can express truths about life, Richard Lehnert believes it must also examine death. Truths about death lurk as subtexts even within his poems about life. To cite just one example, in “Drywall,” in which he seeks

Hold the Apocalypse & You Only Go Extinct Once, both by Bob Lorentson Humor! Literature! Philosophy! Psychology! The fine arts! The...

The Plague by Albert Camus, translated by Laura Marris This new American translation shines light where the older British translation...