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The Healing Power of Poetry: A Medicine as Old as Writing Itself
The history of poetry and the science behind poetry therapy, from Ancient Egypt to modern expressive writing studies and why verse heals what prose cannot. Poetry has treated grief, trauma and loneliness for four thousand years, and modern research now shows exactly why it works.
Ulrich Brugger's Eternally New Is a Contemplative Answer to the Self-Help Industry
After more than sixty years of writing, the founder of The Ojai Retreat has published a collection of aphorisms that sets itself against the formulas of modern self-help.
Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble
In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.
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Helpless
Jessica Knoll's fourth novel opens not with a body but with a funeral, and asks who owns a story once two people have lived it
Regime Change- Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Haberman and Swan report that in the summer of 2025 the White House Situation Room, the secure complex from which a president once watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was turned to a very different purpose. According to their account, the most senior officials in the government gathered there, in the room built for the gravest decisions of national security, not to weigh a threat to the country but to manage a political crisis over the Jeffrey Epstein files. The authors describe a facility meant to protect the nation used instead to protect one man's reputation. If the reporting holds, it is the book's argument made concrete, the machinery of the state quietly turned towards the interests of the person at its head.
Poetry by Season
A simple guide to the verse that suits each turn of the year, for the person who likes their reading to keep time with the light
The Reading and Writing Room- What the Judges Are Reading
A glimpse inside the rooms where the great book prizes are decided, and what the people selecting the next Booker Prize or Pulitzer winner are actually looking for
Careless People: Sarah Wynn-Williams' Memoir revelling how the elite shaped world events
Sarah Wynn-Williams invented her own job at Facebook, then spent seven years watching it from the inside. Her memoir reads like literature and lands like testimony. The book gives you "a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them."
How Kathy Taylor Turned Two Stays in Marburg Into an Autobiographical Novel
A retired professor wrote The Birthing House across two decades and two stays in the same German town. It is a novel about grief, language, and how writing returns a woman to herself.
The Compliant Cowgirl: Christa Jan Ryan's Cautionary Memoir of Love and Codependency
In her memoir The Compliant Cowgirl, Christa Jan Ryan follows a man to 1970s Wyoming, loses herself in the relationship, and writes the way back out of codependency.
Seething Storm Review: A. N. Jones Brings Her Atlantis Trilogy to a Close
Seething Storm ends The Patrons of Earth trilogy with a quest to the lost city of Atlantis, a war among the Greek gods, and the most assured writing of the series.
Cathy Warshaw Turns an Eight-Book Young Adult Mystery Series Into a Free Magazine and Global Youth Outreach Programme
The Sisterhood Sleuths franchise now spans books, a free digital magazine, a schools outreach programme, podcasts, and board games, all aimed at building critical thinking in readers aged 10 to 18.