Do you know what happens when you put an eyes-wide-open pastor and a top religious scholar together to talk about the current state of religious identity, in light of how American politics has become so polarized? Fascinating... Read More

David and Ameena / Ami Rao / Fairlight Books / Softcover $15.95 (400pp) / 978-1-912054-27-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Meatballs, free jazz, and subway singers? This is a fine romance. A fanciful courtship... Read More

Vietnam, a star-crossed country if there ever was one, but also a fascinating crucible for viewing the last century’s global struggles with colonization, ideology, religious persecution, foreign policy, proxy warfare, and governmental... Read More

There’s a secret force at play in American business, one that doesn’t have your best interests in mind. Call it the call of the quick fix, the capitalist desire to convince you that something’s wrong with you so that they can then... Read More

For the Love of Cod / A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness / Eric Dregni, author, translator / University of Minnesota Press / Hardcover $22.95 (200pp) / 978-1-5179-0893-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / ... Read More

The author of two other books in the Savoring the Olde Ways series—Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Books One and Two—Carole Bumpus knows her way around a kitchen, and a culture—with a nicely paired glass of... Read More

This week’s interview pairs our own inhouse editor/reviewer extraordinaire Danielle Ballantyne with Elissa Washuta, a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and an essayist unlike any we’ve seen before. In her starred review of... Read More

Besharam / On Love and Other Bad Behaviors / Priya-Alika Elias / Chicago Review Press / Softcover $16.99 (208pp) / 978-1-64160-507-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Feminist lawyer Priya-Alika Elias’s excellent essay... Read More