Defy the Night / Brigid Kemmerer / Bloomsbury / Hardcover $18.99 (496pp) / 978-1-5476-0466-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The first volume of a new fantasy series from bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer, Defy the... Read More

Today’s interview topic got us thinking: does the Republican-Democrat political divide also extend to eating meat? According to a recent YouGov survey—after correcting for variables like age, education, sex, ethnicity, household... Read More

CPB Ecstasy / It’s true, to the point of being a truism, that early reading changes lives. We readers who were ourselves transformed by library story times, bedtime stories, and flashlights smuggled under the covers with which to savor... Read More

Consider the human heart—evolutionary wonder, critical part of our anatomy, susceptible to all manner of disorder making heart disease the leading cause of death to Americans, with many hundreds of billions of dollars going to... Read More

Pump / A Natural History of the Heart / Bill Schutt / Algonquin Books / Hardcover $26.95 (288pp) / 978-1-61620-893-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Bill Schutt’s Pump is an entertaining survey of the evolution of the... Read More

Congrats all around! Foreword Reviews was just named a finalist in the 2021 FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards for a Writers of Color feature from the January/February issue. For more than twenty five years, FOLIO: has celebrated editorial and... Read More

Today’s interview brings to mind a splendid term we were introduced to last year by Kristen Sollee, a practicing witch and the author of Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch. In her travels to famous... Read More