Be so kind as to suspend your beliefs about psychoactive plants like ayahuasca and instead consider alternatives: that ayahuasca is “an intelligent entity”; “a gift of nature conveying messages from the biosphere”; “a portal to... Read More

"Captivity" is an exciting and engrossing historical epic that richly rewards the reader. Clocking in at over eight hundred pages, "Captivity" is a sprawling, epic bildungsroman that immerses the reader in a richly detailed world of the... Read More

Meltz delights in upending the conventions of fairy tales, even as she pushes the boundaries of the genre in new ways. “There was a time when people worshipped the Earth, and the gods they saw moving through it, and they had advanced... Read More