In an ideal world, we would be no shorter or taller than we need to be, no thinner or heavier, smarter or dimmer. We would be what we needed to be. Similarly, writing need not be short or long to be what it needs to be. When the work is... Read More

The American Medical Association, American Cancer Society, and other powerful, reputable medical organizations routinely dismiss therapies that don’t meet their scientific standards. If a treatment doesn’t exhibit a “biologically... Read More

A glimpse of the latest class of America’s Cup sailboats skipping across waves at speeds up to fifty miles an hour offers a vivid reminder of how far sailboat technology has advanced since the square riggers of the Spanish Main. In... Read More

When Simon gets angry, he shouts and rages, and soon his temper takes the shape of a terrible lion, a rampaging rhino, and a dangerous dragon. With awesome, awful creatures at his back, Simon feels powerful—for a while, anyway. An... Read More

A troubled young boy is sent to his grandmother’s seaside cottage for a summer of reflection in Heather T. Smith’s Ebb & Flow, an emotionally charged YA verse novel that explores the corrosive nature of grief and regret alongside... Read More

This carefully researched, absorbing biography documents the remarkable environmental legacy of Stewart Udall. The Washington DC headquarters of the Department of the Interior is named after Stewart Lee Udall. This excellent book by... Read More

Starting with the adventure of a little girl who must find and retrieve her father’s bones from the bottom of the ocean, "The Secret of the Purple Lake" is a series of five compelling stories by Yaba Badoe. Each story has the rhythm... Read More

Radix Media’s "Aftermath" unites vastly different voices across cultures and experiences through their captivating and bittersweet expressions of pain. Crafted from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, visual art, and... Read More