The Bishop’s Villa / Sacha NaspiniClarissa Botsford, translator / Europa Editions / Hardcover $28.00 (192pp) / 979-888966052-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In a remote Italian town, an unassuming cobbler is drawn... Read More

Children’s Book Editor Danielle Ballantyne Interviews J.S. Silverstein, Author of My Dog is a Hog! “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have... Read More

“Divination, to me, is an interpretive practice. I don’t believe that you can predict the future with tarot cards, or with any other system, but I do believe that you can make yourself very still and practice a kind of active looking... Read More

The Polite Act of Drowning / Charleen Hurtubise / Eriu / Softcover $15.99 (288pp) / 978-1-80418-491-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Charleen Hurtubise’s novel The Polite Act of Drowning, a small-town accident... Read More

Reviewer Hannah Pearson Interviews Karin Adams, Author of The One Week Writing Workshop / Rare is the reader who doesn’t occasionally entertain the dream of writing. But too often, that lovely thought gets challenged by all manner of... Read More

“I love seeing how characters act in very oppressive environments—the ways they find to still be themselves, even without expansive freedom. They might say something clever, or they might just break a vase, you never know. People are... Read More

We Called Them Giants / Kieron GillenStephanie Hans / Image Comics / Hardcover $19.99 (104pp) / 978-1-5343-8707-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A teenage girl encounters huge, mysterious aliens in the engrossing... Read More

“By weaving together storytelling, science communication, and visual arts, we hope that our approach [in the book] will help people expand their understanding of themselves and their place in the solar system. … Furthermore, by... Read More