Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Ben Towle, Author of Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat / What, you thought we outlawed the military draft in this country? For humans maybe, but not if you’re a dog or dolphin, seagull or rat, and... Read More

Interview with Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging / The majority of us who left the hospital with our parents at birth and stayed with them through thick and thin into young... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Judi Miller, Author of Perfect: A Path to Love, Forgiveness, and Transformation / Fear is funny stuff. Your fear of mice, for example, can be terrifying but it is not of the same magnitude as... Read More

Who could seriously argue that teachers don’t play a crucial role in any healthy society? And yet, wages for the profession have always lagged behind the pay workers with similar education levels receive in other jobs, and surveys... Read More

The spiritual path contains a multitude of forks and branches along which to explore—it’s a very personal, intuitive, not-at-all predestined journey, and seekers come from all walks of life. In his own lifelong pursuit of personal... Read More

It is possible that the only consistent feature across humanity is that we are all, every one of us, a bundle of inconsistencies. We have complex, sometimes even conflicting, desires and interests; we defy easy categorization.... Read More

A great book offers the opportunity to experience, to better understand, the lives of others. Through these written stories, the world becomes a more empathetic and tolerant place—one without outsiders or others—where everyone can... Read More

The short list of great Americans of the 20th century would be incomplete without the extraordinary A. Bartlett Giamatti—professor, Renaissance scholar, author, president of Yale University, and, improbably, Commissioner of Major... Read More