The Black Sheep Dances

  "every tree has its own stories to tell"--Joan Maloof This is a lovely, cozy book with a simplicity that is disarming and deceiv...

T Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. This translated fiction novel combines two stories by Russian writer Yuzefovich.  B...

Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken This novel seems spare at first, with dry journal entries from a recently widowed woman. Ho...

It's with tremendous sadness that I relate that George Hodgman, author of Bettyville and a lovely friend, has passed away.  After review...

    Survival mode, a day at a time   {Disclosure: Depression is the major theme of this book and one that should never been m...

“...it isn’t fair that one species can exploit another and that sometimes even when I want to, I can’t protect those who need it m...

In his new book, Break Every String , Joshua Michael Stewart rides shotgun on a trip through the back roads of a small town called Ev...

After five years of legal fighting, the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague has convicted Radovan Karadžić of 10 of the 11 war cr...

BEST OF 2015; This year was tough. I was reading a wider variety of books related to school and work and less fiction.  But the books I ...

Previously published in the New York Journal of Books, November 30, 2015 http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/after-circus Revie...

First published in the NY Journal of Books October 18, 2015 Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness Review by Amy Henry Sheila Ha...

First Published in the New York Journal of Books October 12, 2015 He’s the last person you’d want to sit by on a bus. As a brothe...