“In the United States alone 80% of those incarcerated have been in the foster care system. They lag behind their same-age peers by a year or more in school and even futher in terms of their emotional and behavioral controls … So how... Read More
Although a decade has passed since Sunetra Gupta’s last novel, this lucid and mesmerizing masterpiece shows she has used every minute of that time wisely. Told in memories and fragments, it chronicles the history of a group of friends... Read More
In this sophisticated counting book, ten flightless birds that look like crows endeavor to cross a river. Each one in turn comes up with a remarkably creative solution, using extravagant means such as pulleys, ropes, a catapult,... Read More
A history lesson by default, a young boy reading about Egypt compares his cat, page by page, to its namesake, the goddess Isis: “Isis was the daughter of the Earth and Sky; I got my Isis when our neighbor’s cat had kittens. (She was... Read More
America is changing. According to the 2010 census data, the growth of the Hispanic population made up more than half of the US’s total population growth over the last decade. At the time of the census, Hispanics were the largest... Read More
Despite a history of being fined and threatened with prison for his adherence to natural farming methods, farmer, author, and international consultant for natural agriculture Josef “Sepp” Holzer continues to practice what is now... Read More
As a book reviewer I am usually at once attending to both the words on the page and what should be said about them. With Twelve Breaths a Minute, however, I could not think beyond these essays. I could only read, unblinkingly, imagining... Read More
The social networking revolution has brought with it a related phenomenon–the active involvement of the public in commenting upon and sometimes even creating products and services. The result is a specific way of doing business known... Read More