One of the things that makes racism such a thorny problem is that a great many of us who care deeply about racial issues unknowingly commit racially insensitive acts on occasion. We didn’t intend to offend, we just didn’t know any... Read More

Across all forms of media, science fiction is one genre that has been consistently beloved. While we can be enchanted by the sorcerers and spells of fantasy, transfixed by the twists and turns of a well-plotted mystery, or shed a tear at... Read More

To be a single mother living in any big city in the US on a modest income is to know discrimination firsthand. Let’s run through a quick tally of injustices these women face: 1) strollers are almost impossible to use with public... Read More

Miracle Country / Kendra Atleework / Algonquin Books / Hardcover $27.95 (368pp) / 978-1-61620-998-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Kendra Atleework’s radiant, wrenching memoir Miracle... Read More

Just as the COVID-19 virus seems to find its victims arbitrarily, all of us in the work-from-home brigade have adapted differently to the new working conditions. Some people love the freedom and isolation, others are coping okay but look... Read More

Foreword’s Lit Hit—Indie Books that’ll blow you away / Whether your introduction was Barney or Jurassic Park, there are few people who can claim to have escaped a dinosaur phase. Dinosaurs of the non-purple variety are most often... Read More

Crooked Hallelujah / Kelli Jo Ford / Grove Press / Hardcover $26.00 (304pp) / 978-0-8021-4912-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Three troubled but tough generations of women, all molded and... Read More

Humans too often view the earth and its plant and animal inhabitants with rapacious eyes, a what-can-you-do-for-me attitude that has laid waste to minerals, fossil fuels, water sources, and anything living that might be eaten, smoked,... Read More