Muppets in Moscow. You might think the title of this week’s featured book is a mocking reference to Russia’s bumbling military leadership because Putin’s team seems to have the same level of prowess as Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo,... Read More

The Animals / Cary Fagan / Book*hug Press / Softcover $20.00 (152pp) / 978-1-77166-764-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Cary Fagan’s The Animals is a gentle burlesque in which bureaucratic whims alter the downward... Read More

Just thinking about the hundreds of millions of crimes—murder, robbery, assault, you name it—committed against European Jewry over a score of centuries is madness inducing, and made worse by the fact that there’s not a lot of... Read More

Just thinking about the hundreds of millions of crimes—murder, robbery, assault, you name it—committed against European Jewry over a score of centuries is madness inducing, and made worse by the fact that there’s not a lot of... Read More

In the Neighborhood / Rocio Bonilla / Charlesbridge / Hardcover $17.99 (32pp) / 978-1-62354-360-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A neighborhood full of anthropomorphized animals (and one ogre) lives in a tenuous sort of... Read More

The Great Untold / Our story has never been told before: the pages before us all are blank. Thrill in it: it is our privilege, our duty, our wild and gargantuan task to decide where we go next. The magnificent terror of this kept washing... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Jaclyn Moriarty, Author of Oscar from Elsewhere / Before all the dragons, wizards, hobbits, and unicorns appear in the pages of fantasy books, one of the most fanciful creatures of all pays a... Read More

Based on the books we choose to feature in this weekly newsletter, you might guess that we’re quite open to alternative, out of the mainstream ideas about the natural and spiritual worlds, science and health. And it’s true, though... Read More