Jason Tinney’s ‘Ripple Meets the Deep’ launches at Mick O’Shea’s October 18
Jason Tinney’s words will transport you. His new story collection, Ripple Meets the Deep, has such power and raw beauty;
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The Cult of Aleister Crowley Lives On
“It was sex that rotted him. It was sex, sex, sex, sex, sex all the way with Crowley. He was
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Gerry Sandusky scores winning touchdown with ‘Forgotten Sundays’
Gerry Sandusky’s book, “Forgotten Sundays: A Son’s Story of Life, Loss, and Love from the Sidelines of the NFL,” is
Read moreNo-Accounts: Compassion and courage lift up two men in compelling AIDS novel
Singer Amy Grant once observed that, in her experience, “…people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with
Read moreOlesker takes a heartfelt, but hard look at Baltimore in the ‘fabulous fifties’
Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age. (The Johns Hopkins University Press) Mention the 1950s and most
Read morePolice Training and the Mercenarization of US Warfare in the war on terror
University of Tulsa History professor Jeremy Kuzmarov earlier this year gave a presentation titled, “Police Training and the Mercenarization of US
Read moreEdgar Allan Poe Book Review: A Life Cut Short
Edgar Allan Poe is back in the news. One of his homes, now a museum at 203 Amity Street in
Read moreSports Books: The Austerity Olympics
(British runner Stan Cox competing in the 1948 Olympics.) As the Washington-Baltimore region makes another run at staging an Olympiad after
Read moreMargaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography From Grantham to the Falklands
Love of the Jews can be as unexpected and profound a moral mystery as unreasoning hatred of them: Until Margaret
Read moreGripping Saga of Isaac Rice, a Runaway Slave, is a Hero’s Journey
[“First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier’s Story,” by Bob Rogers, 586 pp, Booklocker.com, Incorporated, $24.99] The year is 1863. The month
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