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

If you have a grill in your backyard and keep a few cookbooks at hand, you likely know the name Steven Raichlen, author of more than thirty books, grillmeister on several international cooking shows, and a shoo-in into the Barbecue Hall... Read More

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