Editor’s Note: This commentary by Seth B. Darling and Douglas L. Sisterson, authors of How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate is part of our ongoing #IndieVoices series of commentaries and features in the month of March... Read More

“There are thresholds we cross that leave us profoundly, irrevocably changed,” writes Michael Engelhard in American Wild, and whether those thresholds lead to beauty and grandeur, solitude and deep silence, or to encounters of the more... Read More

It seems there are never-ending ways to tell a story—particularly with children’s books. From a bluebird who searches for her true self to a gorilla who teaches how to slow down and appreciate life, these children’s books, reviewed... Read More

Total defunding is an oddly passive-aggressive way to destroy a government agency. Yet that’s what’s supposed to happen to several federal agencies, including PBS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by Editor in Chief Matt Sutherland part of our ongoing #IndieVoices series of commentaries and features in the month of March focusing on Climate Change. Read the introduction to the series here. If your... Read More

What makes a great Haggadah unlike any other? For Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg, it’s the ability of the book—which contains the order of the Passover meal—to make connections between the world we know and that of the Exodus. Harry Potter... Read More

As we spent the past few months examining thousands of books sent to our office here in Traverse City, Michigan, and narrowing them down to these INDIES Book of the Year Awards finalists, we found that we could easily move many of them... Read More