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

Trumpets of Death / Simon Bournel-Bosson / Graphic Universe / Softcover $17.99 (232pp) / 979-876564432-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A boy is turned into a deer in Simon Bournel-Bosson’s surreal graphic novel Trumpets of... Read More

How One Survivor of WWII-era US Concentration Camps is Speaking Out Through History: An Interview with Satsuki Ina, Author of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest / Early in Man’s Search for Meaning,... Read More

This week we’re joined by Chloe Michelle Howarth, an Irishwoman whose debut novel explores the forbidden love of teenagers Lucy and Susannah in rural Ireland during the early 1990s—a time when homosexuality was criminalized in that... Read More

Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice / A History of Christians in Action / Karen J. Johnson / IVP Academic / Hardcover $30.99 (352pp) / 978-1-5140-0998-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Karen J. Johnson’s eye-opening history book... Read More

An Interview with Jordan Chariton, Author of We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans / Ironic to think that the country’s worst drinking water crisis took place in Michigan—the... Read More

Today’s discussion of ritual and superstition got us thinking about human eccentricity. Why, for example, are we so prone to believe silly notions about crossing fingers, stepping on cracks, broken mirrors, knocking on wood, walking... Read More

Small Fires / Ronnie Turner / Orenda Books / Softcover $16.99 (300pp) / 978-1-916788-47-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Ronnie Turner’s eerie novel Small Fires, a land is ruled by tales of the devil. Suspected for... Read More