Every once in a while the buzz coming out of our editorial office gets a little outerspacey, a sure sign that our top editor, Michelle, is excited about a new work of science fiction. We take note because she’s a flawless judge of... Read More

Birds and Us / A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation / Tim Birkhead / Princeton University Press / Hardcover $29.95 (496pp) / 978-0-691-23992-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Birds and Us is a fascinating... Read More

Reviewer Danielle Ballantyne Interviews Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Bunten, Authors of Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story / When it comes to the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s a great deal of hyperbole... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Wendy Sanford, Author of These Walls Between Us / Wendy Sanford, who is white, and Mary Norman, who is Black, have created a friendship that spans sixty-five years. The story of their... Read More

Soundraker. Marvelmaker. Spinequaker. Truthstaker. Soulwaker. Barrierbreaker. What then can you say without words? You have no idea until you try. Fides Krucker accepted the challenge and her exploration into nonverbal sound and breath... Read More

Sleeping While Standing / Taki Soma / Avery Hill Publishing / Softcover $16.95 (100pp) / 978-1-910395-68-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Taki Soma’s graphic memoir Sleeping While Standing strings together short,... Read More

Trustees of Strange / My partner and I were late arrivals to Stranger Things, but were finally pulled in by ubiquitous discussions of it (and, in my case, by my Atlanta rabbi’s appearance in one scene as an extra). We’re both... Read More

Today’s conversation, we are thrilled to discover, reveals a surprising fact about medieval society: that there was a lot more going on in terms of gender variations, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, and other realms of diversity than... Read More