Safe Spaces for Inspired Souls / This issue, with its dedicated focus on women’s stories and future-peering science fiction novels, is a special one. Though it arrives to you during soul-trying times, it is infused with our hearty... Read More

Call to Action: Join the “Contact the Governor Day“ on Monday, March 2, 2026 Open Letter to the Publishing Community At the end of last year, I published articles respectively in September, November, and December, in Booklist, The... Read More

On the occasion of her newly released Always Carry Salt this week, Samantha Ellis joins Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler to talk about the heartbreaking exodus of 135,000 Jews from Iraq in the early 1950s, and the imminent extinction... Read More

A Dance with Death / Amanda Linsmeier / Keylight Books / Hardcover $33.99 (320pp) / 979-888798090-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A gothic fairytale with nods to “Beauty and the Beast,” Amanda Linsmeier’s A Dance with... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Faith Freed, Author of DIY Spirituality: Chart Your Own Sacred Path / For decades, Pew Research has documented a decline in the percentage of Americans who identify with organized religion. While... Read More

As ceasefire negotiations grow more intense between Ukraine and Russia, it’s understandable if you’re hoping for a quick agreement. Millions have been killed and maimed, the destruction is catastrophic, and Russia’s aggression only... Read More

The House of Barbary / Isabelle Schuler / Raven Books / Hardcover $29.99 (368pp) / 978-1-5266-4729-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A sheltered, orphaned heiress begins to question the secrets in her estate’s basement in... Read More