An often overlooked position of mighty power resides in the white men (almost always) who decide what gets taught in history books and therefore shape the world view of countless children. Is there a more important job on Earth? Why is... Read More

Why We Struggle to Go Green / Hard Truths About the Clean Energy Transition / Thomas Manuel Ortiz / Stoney Creek Publishing / Softcover $26.95 (270pp) / 978-1-965766-28-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Thomas Ortiz’s Why We... Read More

I write to you consumed by worry. I want to celebrate the beautiful stories in this issue, with their fairies and saints, their quests and luminescent LGBTQ+ love stories—and you should relish in each of those tales; there’s so much... Read More

Editor Danielle Ballantyne Interviews Caitlin Billings, Author of In Our Blood / Know thy enemy. You know the phrase from Sun Tzu’s Art of War and it is incisive advice for anyone facing crisis or adversity of any kind. Today, we’re... Read More

“Syr Hayati Beker’s gleaming novella What a Fish Looks Like alchemizes confessional notes and remixed fairy tales to tell a story of queer survival amid ecological disaster. … passed notes, party invitations, and other ephemera... Read More

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This / Eugene Yelchin / Candlewick / Hardcover $22.99 (432pp) / 978-1-5362-1553-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / An artist seeks freedom from oppressive Russian authorities in Eugene... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews sid sibo, Author of The Scent of Distant Family / Pockets of the northwestern United States have long experienced infiltrations of wealthy city folk seeking solitude, unpressured trout rivers,... Read More

A writer we’ve long adored is back with an enchanting history of apples—and while Priyanka Kumar doesn’t quite cover all 16,000 known apple varieties in The Light Between Apple Trees, you will be hard pressed to keep from rewilding... Read More