Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

On a lonely, abandoned Mars, eighty-year-old Emil Barton is jolted by a phone call from his own younger voice, speaking across sixty years of silence. Trapped after Earth's war and left to endure the planet alone, the younger Barton built a web of self-recorded transcriptions, fake crowds, recorded voices, smells, and even robots to make Mars feel inhabited—an ingenious comfort that has curdled into a devastating echo of loneliness. As the calls continue, the older Barton is forced to reli...

This lively anthology opens with Ray Long's convivial introduction, which treats six celebrated writers as if they were gathered among friends to discuss the stories they cherish most. From the start, the book celebrates individuality, discipline, and the kind of fiction that endures because readers keep returning to it. Edna Ferber's own foreword deepens that theme, showing how a memorable story can grow slowly from fragments of observation, memory, and human truth. Ferber's The Gay Old D...

Born into a cave world where life lasts only eight frantic days, Sim must grow from infant to child to near-adult before dawn can burn him away. Around him, parents age in hours, avalanches and scorching sunlight make every journey lethal, and the people of the valley live by fear, instinct, and inherited memory. As Sim learns language, emotion, and the brutal customs of his kind, he begins to understand the terrible truth of his existence: his people are the descendants of a crashed human...

Why have so many of Africa’s liberation movements – once symbols of hope, sacrifice and justice – struggled to deliver better lives once in power?Bringing together leading scholars, policymakers and political insiders, Why Liberation Movements Fail explores this enduring paradox across the continent. From South Africa, Mozambique and Angola to Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and South Sudan, the contributors reveal how the very qualities that secured victory in str...

Centuries before Pythagoras codified his own numerical system in Greece, the priest-scholars of ancient Babylon were already reading destiny in the vibration of sound and number — and in their system, two names that reduce to the very same digit can carry entirely different fates. The Definitive Guide to Chaldean Numerology is a complete, practitioner-level guide to this older, more esoteric tradition, where the compound number behind a digit matters as much as the digit itself. Across nin...

As a CEO who serves at the helm of multi-million-dollar organizations, lives the life of a serial entrepreneur, and navigates the dynamics of multigenerational family businesses, Ray Sanders takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey through the tensions, challenges, and opportunities unique to family-owned enterprises.In Farming the Future, real-to-life conflicts, communication struggles, and sibling rivalries unfold as sparks fly, tempers flare, and the family patriarch does hi...

Sam Burnett has spent ten years aboard the Constellation, a space morgue ship hauling the dead of an interplanetary war back to Earth, and the work has worn him down to the bone. In the wreckage of battle, his days are measured in silence, cold machinery, and the endless handling of bodies, until even survival feels like a kind of exhaustion. Then Burnett and his younger partner Rice make a shocking discovery: one of the supposed corpses is still alive. Lethla, a high-ranking enemy officia...

William Lantry wakes in a future that has buried not only him, but the whole language of death he once knew. In Salem, graveyards are being dismantled, corpses are incinerated in a gleaming public furnace, and a cheerful society built on trust, cleanliness, and progress has erased murder, fear, and the supernatural from memory. To Lantry, the last dead man on Earth, that sterile perfection is an insult—and a target. Stealing a man's identity, he slips into the city and into the Incinerator...

An urgent and electrifying must-read with shades of Octavia Butler and Mad Max: Fury Road.Library journal calls it "a modern cousin of The Handmaid's Tale."In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding.Seven years ago, midwife Mae Bastet was arrested for infanticide in the fractious Arizona Territory...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers,” authored 135 books, filled 63 volumes of sermons, sponsored 60 benevolent institutions, and preached to massive London congregations. His life and work still tower over Christian history. But how did one man accomplish so much, and how did he survive—and thrive—in the midst of relentless controversy, chronic sickness, debilitating depression, and heart-wrenching private grief?Biographer Ray Rhodes focuses less on the thunder of th...

The Rohingya are among the world's most persecuted people. Rendered stateless by Myanmar's 1982 Citizenship Act, they face systematic violence, discrimination, and displacement that have forced hundreds of thousands into exile across South and Southeast Asia.This revised edition provides an expanded examination of Rohingya experiences in Bangladesh and India, analyzing conditions in overcrowded refugee camps, the perilous journeys undertaken in search of safety, and the profound hu...