House of Caravans / Shilpi Suneja / MIlkweed Editions / Hardcover $26.00 (328pp) / 978-1-57131-396-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Shilpi Suneja’s novel House of Caravans depicts the turbulent end of British-ruled India... Read More

We’ve come a long way from our hunter-gatherer ancestors—and we’ve put on a few pounds to show for it, along with spikes in the incidence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments that are much more common to us... Read More

Here we are now, Entertain Us / As we wrapped our issue, the months-long Writer’s Guild of America strike came to a tentative conclusion—a purported victory for the strikers. But Hollywood executives did not honor the writers’... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Beverly Armento, Author of Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope / Every so often a memoir comes along that takes our breath away as it depicts a life beyond imagining.... Read More

Among the myriad ways we can do the earth a favor, adopting a more enlightened approach to what we put on our bodies can be both fulfilling and fun. And if the movement catches on, remarkable progress can be made in lessening waste,... Read More

Nadia / Christine Evans / University of Iowa Press / Softcover $19.00 (246pp) / 978-1-60938-909-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Secrets choke two London-dwelling refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Christine Evans’s... Read More