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What is a good description of Handouts and Obligations? In these trying times, we have many new obligations - for example, the obligation for swimming, the obligation to embrace, the obligation to occupy the earth.

Selected images from an exhibit, The Existibility installation, at T.W.Wood Gallery in Montpelier, Vermont, by Peter Schumann, founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theatre.

Once Was Lost reflects Dante's Paradiso in finding the terminus of a journey through the moral universe. It is set on a North Atlantic Beach at sunrise, eating a breakfast of fried clams among the many spirits, living and dead, famous and obscure, human and other, animate and inanimate, who have blessed our lives.

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The daughter of a slain U.S. reporter travels to war-torn Syria to shoot a documentary on her father's last days. A boy still reeling from the aftershocks of a genocide recovers in time to help his tribe survive yet another wave of attack. A seemingly delusional elderly woman on learning that the boy she loved as a teenager is bedridden, travels with her family to find him, hoping they'll witness, first hand, the healing synergy they share. A ...

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Connections, written by the Russian author Daniil Kharms, is a surreal story about the unseen links between people and events over a long period of time. A hat, a coat, soup, an excess of tomatoes, beggars, fire, and a tram all play their parts"--

In this remarkable collection of 'Definitions, ' Judith Kerman has created a poetic dictionary, a book of memories, and compendium of exquisitely worded images that help us understand how a woman sees the world around her. With both wit and artistry, each of Kerman's 'definitions' begins with clear prose and slowly flows into the realm of poignant poetry. This is a wonderful and essential book.- Eleanor Lerman

Stories from Iran, translated from the Farsi by the author and edited for an English-speaking audience by Marc Estrin. Stories include Stairway to Success, Watching Kung Fu Panda, The Mountain of the Estate, Der blaue Reiter, Threads, and Baqareh-ei Fish.

Men and women fleeing the violence of Honduras. Mexican reporters covering gang conflict in Juarez. Families living off the refuse of a landfill. Informed by grief and anger and told in varied and distinctive voices, A Different Kind of War: Uneasy Encounters in Mexico and Central America, offers a sensitive exploration of men and women connected by courage, resilience, and the need for human connection in the face of uncommon adversity.

There is elemental life in David Polk's poems, intimate moments when it seems our remove from the natural world-fatal to it-can be bridged. It is the poetry of that connection in daily life and the imagination. The great river floods, a blue wasp sails dreamlike through the house. Suddenly a copperhead lies snake-thick across the hiker's path.The poet's "mind is at once local and transcendent in its reach, " says the writer William Benton, and...

Desert Memory, winner of the Efraín Huerta Poetry Award and finalist to the Peruvian Copé Award, evokes the northern desert country of Mexico and refers to the author's life experiences there.

Initially conceived of as a s literary correspondence between them, authors George Ovitt and Peter Nash set out to chronicle their reading experiences in a series of short essays about the literature they love. Ultimately, in just over five years, they wrote more than 350 such essays, their favorite of which they've assembled in this collection under the title, Trotsky's Sink: Ninety-Eight Short Essays About Literature.The essays included here...

Pippo Lionni, was born in New York and has been living in Paris since the early eighties. His multicultural background and multidisciplinary education result in variety of activities and forms of expression such as big wall installations, projected animations and painting. He was awarded the distinction of "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by French Ministry of culture in 2001. In 1998, Pippo Lionni began work on Facts of Life. Ov...

The Hands of Pianist's narrator is a neurotic freelance writer who aims to prove that pianos kill elite pianists. For decades, he has grappled with the guilt that followed an accident in which he severed his talented sister's fingers, ending her promising career at the keyboard. His investigations centre on the violent deaths at 31 of three great pianists, his detective work taking him from Melbourne to Geelong and Sydney, to the south of Fran...

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Trey Burnes grew up above a funeral home run by his strange and sometimes frightening parents. Now 17, he's locked up on an adolescent psychiatric ward, where he tries to remember an often traumatic past-including, perhaps, an attempt on his life. As Trey relives his shadowed childhood, lit by moments of love and grace, he struggles to come to terms with the past and imagine how-whether-he can return to the world.

In Adolescence and Night, Luigi Fontanella entrusts his imagination with t wresting the years of his youth from an inevitable destiny of oblivion. His poetic idiom combines sharp terseness and a metaphysical dimension, where simple occurrences of a faraway time and place come alive again and transcend their historical specificity to assume universal significance.

The characters in Julia MacDonnell's first collection, The Topography of Hidden Stories, grapple with doubt and disquiet in their search for love and connection, for their own place in the world, and create a shining tapestry of women's lives in the late 20th and the early 21st centuries. Several feature women trapped in a pious patriarchy that has yet to loosen its control of women's lives, especially their creative power and fertility. Howev...

Friends, a graphic novella, follows Bob's attempts to make new friends. When he befriends AlsoBob, the guy in the bathroom mirror, he finds that others treat him differently, and even Snooper, Bob's cat, comes back home.