Time on Fire is a memoir of illness and survival, love and hope--shot through with anger, humor, and piercing eloquence.

Every 1,000 years, the star Anu moves closer to the planet Ishtar, scorching the landscape and driving the northern barbarians into the civilized South. Now the

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's A Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called ldquo;Negro problemrdquo;. As remarkable for its masterful

"Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this ... collection of essays and poems about ra

In England during World War II, with his mother dead from a German bomb and his father off in training and action but keeping him informed by letter, Sonny trie