This is what Peggy Sue learns: we all want a second chance at the past, but the real second chances only happen in the here and now.

Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Seamus Heaney are still looking for new ways to measure his life and work.

My brother, when did rage become your station?

Jesus says, Woe to your puritan work ethics.

And therefore, all the more believable, That God sent a tiny angel with a chinstrap made of feathered jewels,

Sucked into the belly of an 80-foot sperm whale, scuba diver Jay Gardiner reconciles the loss of his father and challenges the power of the creatures of the sea in Daniel Kraus’s novel 'Whalefall.’