While grave concern for the world’s environment is often expressed, “biocapacity”—the planet’s ability to regenerate and support the needs of living things––is less often discussed in specific, measurable terms. Mathis... Read More

A new origin story for the unpredictable antihero Harley Quinn is revealed in Mariko Tamaki’s Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass. It portrays her as a quirky teenager sent to live in Gotham City, where she’s “adopted” by a kind but... Read More

A wildlife photo brings to hand what rightfully belongs in the secretive haunts of untamed wilderness. The best of those photos capture an animal in its natural habitat acting true to its nature. And quite often, as voyeurs, we humans... Read More

From Bigfoot to Area 51 to the Jersey Devil, the United States boasts plenty of legendary unsolved mysteries, and the Midwest has had its share of odd occurrences. B. J. Hollars takes a look at a few of these in the entertaining and... Read More

Nina Allan’s "The Silver Wind" is a twisting, haunting work of speculative fantasy, pulsing with the dull ache of a fading dream and intoxicating its audience with disorienting what-ifs. When Owen, a clockmaker’s apprentice, is... Read More

Defining marriage and adultery is tricky, and it was even trickier in the 1800s. In the heady but colorful "Unfaithful", Carol Faulkner gives the history of American marriage reformers. These rebels and thinkers, along with some... Read More

Recounting the events that rocked her foundations, Bonnie S. Hirst’s memoir "Test of Faith" is also about unconditional love and maturing faith. Bonnie S. Hirst’s powerful memoir "Test of Faith" is about how her lifelong belief in... Read More

"The Soledad Children" is a painful legal history from the not-so-distant past, when biased testing and cultural segregation were the rule, rather than the exception. Marty Glick and Maurice Jourdane’s "The Soledad Children" is the... Read More