IndieView with Don Sawyer, author of The Tunnels of Buda

Both books wrestle with a fundamental question that has been very much on my mind over the last few years: “As a species, are we really so unevolved, that when facing existential challenges such as climate change we can only fall back on primitive and counterproductive responses such as tribalism, distrust of the Other, and a demand for simple answers to increasingly complex questions?” I find that truly troubling, and because it’s too depressing to believe we are indeed that limited, in my books I am suggesting there is more at work here …

Don Sawyer – 9 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Kathleen P. Allen PhD, author of Stuck in Our Screens

In the end I concluded that we are a society in trouble. We are stuck in our screens, commoditizing ourselves and our children, engaged in lying, manipulating, and losing our own sense of who we are. We live in social media apps pretending to be celebrities and behaving as if life is a reality TV show.

Kathleen P. Allen PhD – 3 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Judith Lissauer Cromwell, author of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: Portrait of an Artist, 1755-1842

A few years ago the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (where I live) held a retrospective of Louise-Élisabeth Vigée le Brun’s oeuvre. Reviewers praised the exhibit to such an extent that, despite never having heard of this artist, I went to see the show.

Judith Lissauer Cromwell – 23 July 2025 Continue reading