This week’s interview takes us to Japan, though its topic is decidedly less cheerful than the Tokyo Summer Olympics currently enrapturing that country and the world. Back in 2015, Shiori Ito was beginning her journalism career after an... Read More

All’s fair in love and war—though betrayed spouses and mustard gas victims might take issue with that word “fair.” But we get the point: no-one should ever be surprised by anything that happens in the course of courtship or... Read More

If you think of yoga as a rubber-matted playpen for sculpted, silver-spooned soccer moms with surgically enhanced assets, you haven’t met self-described fat, Black, queer Jessamyn Stanley, yoga teacher extraordinaire and author of the... Read More

We live and breathe book titles in our offices, and when we discovered Gideon Defoe’s An Atlas of Extinct Countries, one thought came to mind: What a “brilliant” title! No one should be surprised that he’s a comedy writer. Then... Read More

If you’ve been paying even the slightest attention to her hundreds of reviews and Editor’s Notes for Foreword Reviews, you know that our Editor-in-Chief Michelle Anne Schingler writes with a thunderstick for a pen—especially when... Read More

Let’s stop the nonsense and finally admit that the notion of dieting for permanent weight loss is a hoax. Statistics show that ninety-five percent of dieters do not succeed with their goal to lose weight over the long term. And don’t... Read More

Unlike the government-funded, crew-cutted space programs of yore, you gotta love how eccentrics like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are putting their quirky signatures on SpaceX and Blue Origin, the two pet projects of their billionaire... Read More

Aging takes a toll on the body, that’s just a fact. And for women, nothing in life looms larger than the day in middle age when their ovaries decide to call it quits. It can be a time of suffering, confusion, and shame—as if a... Read More