At best, historical fiction helps you experience a time and place with the seeming precision of memory or nostalgia. You may not have actually been there to see the events but the talented novelist offers a close second. In Marines of... Read More

We’re blessed as a species—no need to play the fight or flight game anymore, food arrives at our doorsteps minutes after we make the request, disease is mostly understood and cured with medicine—but that doesn’t mean life is easy... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews James Ross, Author of Coldwater Revenge / One of the very few downsides to living a dynamic, enterprising American life is that you leave little time to write, should you want to. That matters... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Lynne Hill-Clark, Author of A Woman’s World / Life on Earth has many pleasures and attractions but that has never discouraged talented storytellers from fantasizing about life on other... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Ben Towle, Author of Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat / What, you thought we outlawed the military draft in this country? For humans maybe, but not if you’re a dog or dolphin, seagull or rat, and... Read More

Interview with Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging / The majority of us who left the hospital with our parents at birth and stayed with them through thick and thin into young... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Judi Miller, Author of Perfect: A Path to Love, Forgiveness, and Transformation / Fear is funny stuff. Your fear of mice, for example, can be terrifying but it is not of the same magnitude as... Read More

Who could seriously argue that teachers don’t play a crucial role in any healthy society? And yet, wages for the profession have always lagged behind the pay workers with similar education levels receive in other jobs, and surveys... Read More