Today’s interview takes us to Alexandria, and all of you librarians instantly think of the Great Library of Alexandria, which was established around the 3rd century BCE by Ptolemy I to hold all the world’s accumulated knowledge—it... Read More

Twinkind / The Singular Significance of Twins / William Viney / Princeton University Press / Hardcover $35.00 (224pp) / 978-0-691-25475-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Researcher William Viney’s dazzling, illustration-rich... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Gin Hammond, Author of Returning the Bones / Great books leave their mark in unforgettable scenes and ideas. And a few offer more than seems possible. In Gin Hammond’s Returning the Bones, we... Read More

In 2023, we interviewed the authors of several spiritual books that transcend conventional religion and instead stress feminine, Indigenous, nature-based, and self-exploration in their core beliefs. This week we culled the most powerful... Read More

Besaydoo / Yalie Saweda Kamara / Milkweed Editions / Softcover $16.00 (96pp) / 978-1-63955-031-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Yalie Saweda Kamara’s lucent poetry collection Besaydoo encircles matters of race, heritage,... Read More

As we do at the very beginning of every year, this week we’re offering you an assemblage of our favorite questions and responses from the previous year’s fifty-plus interviews between reviewers and authors. Please give this an... Read More

Chasing Stars / Meg Gaertner / Jolly Fish Press / Softcover $9.99 (160pp) / 978-1-63163-790-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A poignant story of sisterhood and coming-of-age, Meg Gaertner’s novel Chasing Stars follows changes... Read More

To the Ice / Thomas TidholmAnna-Clara Tidholm, illustrator / Gecko Press / Hardcover $18.99 (80pp) / 978-1-77657-507-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Thomas Tidholm’s chapter book To the Ice, young explorers traverse a... Read More