Italy is IT. (No, not its acronym, silly.) Italy is IT!—most marvelous of Mediterranean marvels, spellcaster of bewitchment since the Phoenician days, followed by Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, Angevins, and Aragonese, all of whom... Read More

Let’s Build a Dam! Daniel FehrMariachiara Di Giorgio, illustrator / NorthSouth Books / Hardcover $19.95 (32pp) / 978-0-7358-4501-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Misty watercolors evoke the intangible air of dreams... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Mark Berridge, Author of A Fraction Stronger / It’s one thing to be knocked down by debilitating illness, but life often has an insult-to-injury tendency which means that many patients can... Read More

To grow is to discard old beliefs in favor of newer ones that fit better with our evolving sense of self. Everybody we meet, every walk in the woods we take, every book we read potentially leads to improvement. As Abe Lincoln said, “I... Read More

In Sardinia / An Unexpected Journey in Italy / Jeff Biggers / Melville House / Unknown $27.99 (336pp) / 978-1-68589-026-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Jeff Biggers’s In Sardinia is a story about becoming enchanted... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Pollyanna Bladyka, Author of Redeemed and Rectified / You can take the teacher out of school but you can’t take her thirty-plus years of interacting and educating children out of the teacher.... Read More

As we do periodically, it’s time for another pause to drop jaw and acknowledge the stunning technological advances changing the way we understand our universe. What caught our attention is what’s happening in astronomy. Specifically,... Read More

How to Clean a Fish / And Other Adventures in Portugal / Esmeralda Cabral / University of Alberta Press / Softcover $27.99 (320pp) / 978-1-77212-655-6 / Buy: Amazon / Covering her extended stay in Portugal, Esmeralda Cabral’s... Read More