A platter of new cookbooks and food writing from indie publishers covers many ethnic traditions and diets, but all the books have a common theme of getting back to healthy, traditional ingredients and techniques–from LA taquerias to... Read More

Children are big dreamers; with just imagination they can go to space or rule massive kingdoms. But sometimes, the wishes of children are on a smaller scale. Sometimes, they want to connect with their parents or simply find a quiet place... Read More

Just before you hit adulthood, you have to go through one huge task; survive in the apocalypse, fight paranormal creatures, or deal with high school mean girls. It just depends on your genre. Wait, not everyone goes through that? Whoops.... Read More

Following are reviews of some of the best recent indie LGBTQ fiction, reviewed in our April 2017 special LGBTQ section. Sons of Devils / Alex Beecroft / Riptide Publishing / Softcover $16.99 (232pp) / 978-1-62649-555-5 / Sons of... Read More

Modern life is messy and frightening—and at certain times, the best alternative is to disappear into a good book. Imagine a world where good triumphs over evil, magic obeys its mistress, and the world’s many savage tribes meet on the... Read More

Poetry can be angry, ranting, aggressive. It can be evocative or poignant. Sometimes poetry has a quiet beauty. Simple words tell a story and layer their meaning carefully, veiling it. Reviewed in our March/April issue, this soft poetry is... Read More

When you picture climate change, you might picture the rainforests disappearing. Maybe you see a lone polar bear, standing on a drifting slab of ice. Whatever the case is, what you’re picturing is probably not good. Which is why it’s... Read More

“There are thresholds we cross that leave us profoundly, irrevocably changed,” writes Michael Engelhard in American Wild, and whether those thresholds lead to beauty and grandeur, solitude and deep silence, or to encounters of the more... Read More