The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) just held its 55th annual event at the Fiere Exhibition Center just a few blocks from the University of Bologna, considered to be the oldest university in the Western world (11th century). China... Read More

Downdrift An Eco-Fiction Johanna Drucker Three Rooms Press Softcover $15.95 (256pp) 978-1-941110-61-4 Buy: IndieBound, Amazon Humans “imagine every adoption of their behaviors to be an advancement. I see it otherwise, as downdrift, the... Read More

The moment of divergence––apocalypse, cataclysm, discovery, or genesis––looms large in these works of fantasy... Read More

How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens Paul Noth Bloomsbury Hardcover $13.99 (224pp) 978-1-68119-657-2 Buy: IndieBound, Amazon From its very first outrageous sentence, Paul Noth’s How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens is hysterically... Read More

Reviewer Rachel Jagareski Talks Pristine Wilderness with Stephen E. Strom, Author/Photographer of Bears Ears: Views from a Sacred Land While not tech savvy, since arriving in the Oval Office, President Trump has shown great proficiency... Read More

Have Fun in Burma Rosalie Metro Northern Illinois University Press Softcover $19.95 (245pp) 978-0-87580-777-5 Buy: IndieBound, Amazon Have Fun in Burma follows Adela, just out of high school, through her summer of self-discovery. No... Read More

They say the world is small. And yet, the world has so much to offer in every way possible that that can’t possibly... Read More

Reviewer Goes Thumb to Green Thumb with Sarah Wyndham Lewis, Author of Planting for Honeybees. Why is it that conversations about the birds and the bees are dominated by human sex, while the life and times of those flying critters is so... Read More