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

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight / Riku OndaAlison Watts, translator / Bitter Lemon Press / Softcover $15.95 (286pp) / 978-1-913394-59-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Breaking up is never easy, but when you suspect... Read More

Reviewer Matt Benzing Interviews Mike Trigg, Author of Bit Flip / If you’re looking for an end-all explanation for how the the world got to be the technological wonder it is today, you need only two words, one place: Silicon Valley.... Read More

Playacting is a skill we all use on occasion, but there’s something about art museums that brings out the Brando in us—head cocked, chin in hand, gazing contemplatively at a supposed masterpiece, thinking, “What the hell is that... Read More