Author Archive

Anointed by Utne Reader as one of a select hundred transformative visionaries, ecologist and philosopher David Abram here attempts to imaginitively engineer the reunion of contemporary man and his animal-respecting ancestors, seeking in near-shamanisti...
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Books that take their inspiration from the forbidding Maine coastline and the people who populate it.
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Good books on good writing from a writer who teaches and a teacher who writes.
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We may no longer worry about massive exchanges of nuclear weapons between superpowers, but Pulitzer-winning historian Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) knows that so long as a single atomic bomb exists in the world, potential disaster lurk...
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This French literary thriller by Laurence Cossé (translated by Alison Anderson) chronicles the unexpected dangers that surface when a bookseller and an heiress open a Parisian bookshop stocked only with masterpieces, as chosen by a secret commit...
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Jeff Deck had been poked in his editorial eagle-eyes once too often by the glaring typos that seemed to be breeding on signs all around him. Enlisting his friend Benjamin D. Herson in the Typo Eradication Advancement League, he set out on a quixotic jo...
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Transgenic animals—hybrids between two or more species—exist all around us, as mere agricultural and pharmaceutical beasts of burden. This little-noted biological frontier inspires novelist Laurence Gonzales to ponder the day when a human-b...
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The nonfiction work by Colombian Nobelist Gabriel García Márquez recounts the dangerous undercover exploits of filmmaker Miguel Littín, who snuck back into his homeland—after being exiled by Augusto Pinochet—in order se...
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The author of The Cookbook Collector recommends three contemporary classics.
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Reading to inspire the writer within.
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