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A young bartender in Boston's North End finds himself complicit in the breakdown of his roommate's relationship with a girlfriend; a married, middle-aged professor of composition abjectly crumbles under the stress of his affair with a beautiful student. In his debut fiction collection, poet Ed Meek vividly reimagines a gritty, freewheeling 1970s New England whose cynical, impulsive inhabitants--torn between the longing for human connection and the fear of domesticity--negotiate the blurry boundaries of personal responsibility. With these deceptively mundane accounts of ordinary lives in...

A New Destiny is About to Unfold

Upon receiving mysterious books from their dying grandfather, thirteen-year-old Kie Kinsely, and his younger brother, Max, learn of an invisible war that has been ranging for over two thousand years. Accepting their place in this Ancient War as the Blade Children, the two brothers gain the ability to see angels and demons that roam the earth. Together, along with their Guardians, Kie and Max are sent to the Spiritual World by a Supernatural Force.

Both Worlds Are in the Balance

In order to return home, they must defeat a team of powerful demons...

If time is a dimension, then why can we not travel in it as we can in space?

Why can no physical reason be found for why the speed of light is what it is? Why, as Einstein told us, is it absolutely constant and is the maximum possible velocity? Why would the speed of light affect the mass of an object and the passage of time? Einstein told us the way the universe operates but did not tell us why.

What about matter? Why is there not just empty space? Matter revolves around two electric...

In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common yet often devastating illnesses.

In Reimagining Illness Heather Meek reads works by six major eighteenth-century women writers – Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Burney – alongside contemporaneous...