“Being a Jinn is something Nadine is proud of, but she is also fearful because of how she is treated. This is something that parallels, I think, to many immigrants and children of immigrants. People have a pride for who they are, where... Read More

The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon / Audrey BarbakoffRotem Teplow, illustrator / The Collective Book Studio / Hardcover $17.95 (32pp) / 978-1-68555-603-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In a lakeside shtetl filled with... Read More

“If the mystery of the Resurrection continues in history, then we should be prepared to seek Christ not among the dead, in the empty tomb of the past, but to discover today’s Galilee (“the Galilee of the Gentiles“), where we will... Read More

Mothers of the Mind / The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Path / Rachel Trethewey / The History Press / Hardcover $36.99 (368pp) / 978-1-80399-189-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / ... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, Author of Eden, The Nine, and Daughter of a Promise / With the writing chops of a pro, today’s guest Jeanne Blasberg has pulled from the rich pickings of her... Read More

“My personal epiphany as a writer came from this advice: think of your book as a movie in which you’re presenting scenes to the reader. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a vivid detail is worth a few hundred.’’ —Alex... Read More

Strong Like You / T. L. Simpson / North Star Editions / Softcover $14.99 (224pp) / 978-1-63583-094-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In T. L. Simpson’s moving coming-of-age novel Strong Like You, a high school student... Read More

The Book Bait / An ongoing dispute between my husband and I: is Mr. Coreander, the bookseller in The Neverending Story, friend or foe? In recent years I’ve filed him as a villain. He baits Bastian with the book, I’ve argued, and he... Read More