We’re joined by a film star this week, one of the Star Trek actors who captured our attention in his role of Lieutenant Sulu in both the television and movie series. But don’t think George Takei rested on those laurels. In 1994, he... Read More

Parklands / America’s National Parks and Public Lands / Jacob W. Frank / Gibbs Smith / Hardcover $40.00 (240pp) / 978-1-4236-6851-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Featuring hundreds of stunning images of parks and public land... Read More

Executive Editor Interviews Samuel Garza Bernstein, Author of Cesar Romero: The Joker Is Wild / Hollywood and the entertainment industry have long mesmerized the world by turning beautiful people—skilled at acting and performing—into... Read More

Welcome to our fall issue. We’re so glad to have you. Hospitality is a curious act in trying times: it reminds us of our mutual humanity and our shared responsibilities. It feeds both the giver and the receiver at the soul level.... Read More

We’ve made the wise decision to let Emily Dickinson take over the duties of introducing this conversation between Michel Leboeuf and Kristen Rabe, reviewer of Michel’sLost Songs of Nature. Emily chose to do it in verse: “Hope” is... Read More

Jesusland / Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture / Joelle Kidd / ECW Press / Softcover $19.95 (352pp) / 978-1-77041-779-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Joelle Kidd’s cultural critique Jesusland surveys... Read More

Reviewer Ryan Prado Interviews Jinwoo Park, Author of Oxford Soju Club / For all the contention about immigration among First World nations, it’s important to remember that our species has migration in its DNA. Out of Africa, humans... Read More

Gothic novelist Ronnie Turner has some pretty strong feelings about female beauty. In fact, the way beauty marks young women as targets for sexual abuse infuriates her. In the interview below, she cites the Pleiades myth—Orion stalks... Read More