Okay, ladies, top up your coffee cups and then let’s resume your conversation from last week. Josephine, we especially look forward to hearing about how your ancestors and spirit guides interact with you and influence your life. For... Read More

Ancient lands and their artifacts live as much in our imagination as they do in marble and stone. Straddling centuries, they call to us with both questions and answers about history and our place in it. Patricia Vigderman’s The Real... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Steve Madden, Author of The Cobbler / Some big names don’t need an introduction, but in the case of shoe icon Steve Madden, his memoir reveals that there’s a great deal more soul than sole to the... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Roohi Choudhry, Author of Outside Women / What does kinship and solidarity look like for women on society’s margins? In her novel Outside Women, Roohi Choudhry explores the hardships misogyny and... Read More

Kristine Morris Interviews Marcia Menter, Author of That Voice: In Search of Ann Drummond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life / We’re always fascinated by the inventive ways a writer chooses to tell their life story—knowing that the... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Jeanne and Mark K. Shriver, Authors of Pairs of People / How to raise new generations of children enthusiastic about serving others—that is the question. With rhyming text, expressive illustrations,... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Cristien Storm, Author of Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change / You, as an individual, exist in a small bubble, separate from the seven billion other... Read More

Isms here and isms there—let’s run through the gamut: racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism, heterosexism. Talk about a hornet’s nest of trouble. Proud sponsors of murder, persecution, prejudice, and just plain ol’ rudeness... Read More