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Interview with Audrey Barbakoff and Rotem Teplow, Author and Illustrator of The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon

by Michelle Anne Schingler

A recent Pew study found that a third of Jews younger than forty don’t think of Judaism as their religion as much as they view it as their ancestry or identity. That identity may include adhering to a few Jewish rituals and... Read More

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Reviewer Kristen Rabe Interviews Miriam Darlington, Author of Otter Country

by Kristen Rabe

Today’s featured book, Otter Country, got us thinking about the other kind of otters—captive ones—and how humans have chosen zoos as the main way they interact with their fellow earthly creatures. That’s a sad fact. But whether... Read More

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A Few Minutes with Ellen Bernstein, Author of Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis

by Kristen Rabe

Gods—what we are if you define “god” as a supernatural being able to perform magical feats. Watch as we dam raging rivers and redirect the water into fields of green. Admire as whole species of birds and animals disappear to our... Read More

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Kengo Kurimoto Discusses Wildful, His Magisterial New Graphic Novel about Rediscovering Nature

by Peter Dabbene

While you were checking your phone, you may not have noticed the hundreds of scientific studies confirming the health benefits of nature. Old news, right? Well, isn’t it about time our healthcare system did something about it? Like... Read More

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Jessica Young Discusses Find Your Flow, Her New Book on Unlocking Creativity through Intuitive Fluid Art

by Kristine Morris

Trauma—once it pays a visit to the human psyche, it never leaves. Finally, science is beginning to understand why post-traumatic stress disorder is so debilitating. A recent New York Times article describes the problem, and the... Read More

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A Reviewer-Author Interview with William Viney, Author of Twinkind: The Singular Significance of Twins

by Rebecca Foster

We have twins on our mind today, thanks to an interview between reviewer Rebecca Foster and William Viney, author of Twinkind and one of the world’s foremost experts on siblings who share wombs. But before we go to that conversation,... Read More

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Islam Issa Talks About Alexandria: The City That Changed the World

by Jeff Fleischer

Today’s interview takes us to Alexandria, and all of you librarians instantly think of the Great Library of Alexandria, which was established around the 3rd century BCE by Ptolemy I to hold all the world’s accumulated knowledge—it... Read More

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BEST Of 2023: Spirituality Edition

by Matt Sutherland

In 2023, we interviewed the authors of several spiritual books that transcend conventional religion and instead stress feminine, Indigenous, nature-based, and self-exploration in their core beliefs. This week we culled the most powerful... Read More