Reviewer Meg Nola Interviews Mary McKnight, Author of Out of Place: Coming of Age in Cold War West Germany / Joining the military is the one form of government service requiring that one puts their life at risk. And, along with those... Read More

Reviewer Jeff Fleischer Interviews George Frazier, Author of Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America / Today’s featured book brings to mind a question we never got around to asking the smart... Read More

Sugar Bush Babies / Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother / Janis A. Fairbanks / University of Minnesota Press / Hardcover $17.95 (152pp) / 978-1-5179-1902-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Janis A. Fairbanks’s reverential family... Read More

Reviewer Willem Marx Interviews Alicia McKenzie, Author of These ABCs Belong to Me! Unkind words may not break bones but no one has escaped the pain they inflict. And that’s not even considering the countless other phrases and... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Kelly Scarborough, Author of Butterfly Games / The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries certainly rank as one of history’s most compelling time periods. With the New Worlds of the... Read More

An often overlooked position of mighty power resides in the white men (almost always) who decide what gets taught in history books and therefore shape the world view of countless children. Is there a more important job on Earth? Why is... Read More

Why We Struggle to Go Green / Hard Truths About the Clean Energy Transition / Thomas Manuel Ortiz / Stoney Creek Publishing / Softcover $26.95 (270pp) / 978-1-965766-28-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Thomas Ortiz’s Why We... Read More

I write to you consumed by worry. I want to celebrate the beautiful stories in this issue, with their fairies and saints, their quests and luminescent LGBTQ+ love stories—and you should relish in each of those tales; there’s so much... Read More