An Avalanche of Reviews, Poetry and Stories: Spring 2019

This issue includes the most massive set of book reviews yet from the editor, Anna Faktorovich. Nearly a hundred titles are analyzed closely, in search for what these new releases signify for world culture, society, and scholarly knowledge. The topics covered range from history to investing to literature; the publishers represented are primarily university presses with a few mainstream trade publishers. Those who are seeking insightful books as part of their research or to enjoy in their free time, will find some great tested ideas here. The scholarly essays included are on silence in Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed and a tailoring in The Waves and Madame Bovary by Susie Gharib. The short stories presented are by Alberto Ambard (maxillofacial prosthodontist), Yona Bouskila (scientist), Alan Fleishman (corporate executive), Carolyn Geduld (clinical social worker), Kevin Harris, Ziaul Moid Khan (English teacher at the Gudha International School), Kathleen Murphey (associate professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia), and Jack Smith (fiction editor). Sets of poems are by Christopher Barnes, Lloyd A. Jacobs, M.D. (surgeon), LindaAnn LoSchiavo (dramatist), W. F. Parent, and Howard Winn (Professor of English at SUNY).