Immortal Destiny is the third of a trilogy of books on immortality. In The Light of Eden (2008) R...

These articles on the facts, fictions, and oddities of English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, a...

Barefoot on a Frosty Morn is a literary and genealogical tapestry of several families over three ...

No one can write our narrative for us, and no one should. For we are the novelists of ourselves, ...

The essays and lectures that comprise this book reflect decades of work in the United States, Spa...

In the seafaring tradition of Defoe and Sabatini, The Prodigal is a tale of the shipwreck and str...

The real challenge for me, used as I was to academic and fiction writing, was the necessary brevi...

These are tales of fortune and forfeiture, happiness and hazard, love and deceit. Some stories ar...

A celebrated philosopher once said that in order to understand anything human we must tell a stor...

Many entries in this book are my creations; others are gleanings and adaptations from several lan...

IntroductionFor centuries Spain has been a country foreigners love to hate and Spaniards hate to ...

This wonderfully entertaining picaresque novel by Harold Raley falls in the tradition of rogue li...