Upside-down fairy tales target greed as our heroes turn to villains. Fairy tales are turned inside out in Jennifer Quaggin’s book, "Terrible Tales". With the darkness of Grimm and the comedy flair of Roald Dahl, Quaggin retells popular... Read More

A board of directors that governs a nonprofit organization makes decisions that can affect whether or not that organization is successful in carrying out its mission. In fact, as Lisa Dahmus writes, “Poor decision making can cripple or... Read More

“My faith is based on some principles that I learned growing up, adjusted by a realization that those principles may be affected by other people and finally attuned to my own grasp of what is real for me personally.” With that... Read More

“To know the dog,” writes Clarice Rutherford, “you must first know the wolf.” Dogs, who have evolved to live with humans, can make wonderful companions if their humans understand them and teach them good manners for living in... Read More

In the stark beauty of Yosemite National Park, a woman mourns a broken relationship. She is walking back to her hotel when she encounters a Girl Scout troop sitting around a campfire preparing to listen to a Park Ranger’s tale. She... Read More

"Things Seen" is a slender volume of essays, so slim for a book-length work that it might be mistaken for, at a first glance, a novella or a poet’s chapbook. Though brief, the French writer Annie Ernaux’s most recent book weighs in,... Read More

Between blog posts, tweets, and other updates on social media sites, it’s clear we live in an age when more people than ever are communicating through writing. But even with all this typing going on, many writers fail to get their... Read More

Each individual has a fairly good idea about the nature of his or her own consciousness. Beyond that, however, answers to questions about what it is, where it originates, and whether or not it connects us all remain open to speculation.... Read More