In Yoga for Freedom, John P. Vourlis relates the experiences of twenty volunteers who travel to Nepal with an organization called the Imagine Foundation to raise awareness of child slavery and human trafficking in the area. Early on, Vourlis provides background information on the issue, noting that widespread poverty in Nepal “leaves children vulnerable to[…]
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T G.P. Putman’s Sons http://penguin.com Marie Lu has done something wonderful—taking Renaissance-era elements of kingdoms, aristocracy, and nobility and mashing them with her own unique spin to create a supernatural, yet realistic new world. The Young Elites is an edgy, dark, intense thrill ride. The “Blood Plague” has swept through the nation. To most, the[…]
Review: We’re All Doing Time: A Guide For Getting Free written by Bo Lozoff
By shelfmedia Review Jul 06, 2015
In the early 1970s, Ram Dass’s book Be Here Now, a “cookbook for a sacred life,” became popular in prisons, and he began receiving letter after letter from prisoners responding to the book. The letters revealed that the prisoners were serious about finding a way of life that felt meaningful. They spoke of forgiveness, shame,[…]
Broken Record Nostalgia: Stories by Caleb Michael Sarvis The opening story of Broken Record Nostalgia reads like something out of Raymond Carver—or something Carver might have written if he’d been a twenty-something writer applying his craft in the twenty-somethingth century. It’s called “Click Click Harvey,” and it follows the adventures (or lack thereof) of three[…]
Vs. Death Noises by Marcus Pactor In the final story of Marcus Pactor’s Vs. Death Noises, a man discovers a single hair in his bathroom and obsesses over the shape it has taken. The problem, he realizes, is that geometry can’t solve his conundrum because geometric definitions are “concerned with perfect impossibilities” whereas the world[…]
