Bookseller Shaun Bythell can be famously curmudgeonly about his customers. But while reflecting on his shop’s second lockdown, he’s discovered something surprising. The owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in... Read More

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Margaret Cahill’s memoir, Under Cover of Darkness: How I Blogged My Way Through Mantle Cell Lymphoma (O Books). We are offering this as part of our special focus this month on cancer. Talk about... Read More

My father died of cancer at 53. My mother barely survived breast cancer at 45. And like a dutiful son, I caught the cancer bug last year at 53—stage 4 throat cancer—it’s a family thing. Lots and lots of families. One hundred years... Read More

White supremacists march near the library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center. John Halliday, director of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL), is not sure how to get racists away from... Read More

Hate speech is a special kind of evil. It doesn’t commit acts of violence, but it’s a vital part of inciting the anger leading to violence. Just in the past century, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and select others provided... Read More

An independent publisher with an appellation as uplifting as Wings Press just sings ascent. But looking over the catalog of the San Antonio-based house—a list that includes such literary luminaries as Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rosemary... Read More

Science and religion. There seems to be very little the two have in common, but I think it’s all in the way you perceive religion. And that is the theme of the latest episode of our IndieVoices podcast. I talk to authors who are able... Read More

A number of years ago, I wrote an article for Salon.com about how some people saw similarities between nanotech and Kabbalah. The headline was: “Nanotech angels: Kabbalah and nanotechnology share unexpected common ground: They are... Read More