As we do at the very beginning of every year, this week we’re offering you an assemblage of favorite questions and responses from the previous year’s fifty-plus interviews between reviewers and authors. Hopefully, you’ll find a few... Read More

As your Christmas shopping winds down to crunch time, the ghosts of Christmas past will inevitably push you down the ugly sweater aisle and you will be helpless to resist spending good money on offensive clothing. But don’t beat... Read More

At this precarious moment in our planet’s life-as-we-know-it, ironic to think that the Indigenous peoples our European ancestors booted off this land hold the knowledge that we’ll need to survive. To better grasp this fact, take note... Read More

Keep your hands off my butterfly, you arthro-poaching, science-setbacking, advantage-taking scoundrel. Alas, crime knows no bounds. So, yes, a theft involving butterflies, as farcical as it is infuriating because robbing museums is even... Read More

Fresh off a fracture in the MAGA world with the resignation of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the imminent release of the Epstein files, savvy political observers will still be hesitant to question the resiliency of the MAGA machine... Read More

Writers are fearless—we’ve heard it said so often it has become a cliche. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a courageous few who really are drawn to grapple with issues that are so vexing the rest of us shield our eyes and skulk... Read More

As readers, we are fortunate beyond measure to have learned to love reading at a young age because one of life’s greatest pleasures is to fall under the spell of a written story. So, when putting together your Christmas list this year,... Read More

What if I own more paperclips than I’ll ever use in this lifetime. My other possessions are shabby: the house half painted, the car with no muffler, one dog’s got bad eyes and the other dog’s a horny moron, even the baby has a rash... Read More