“The regime Kim built is so repressive that, in the modern world, it might warrant a category of its own—below the average dictatorship.’’ —Fyodor Tertitskiy The word tyranny (tyrannos) comes down to us from ancient Greece in... Read More

Pencil / Hye-Eun Kim / TOON Books / Hardcover $18.99 (48pp) / 978-1-66266-553-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / This wordless picture book speaks volumes about conservation and the transformative power of art.... Read More

An Interview with Kazu Haga, Author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse / At two of the darkest moments of the past century, you may recall that Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. practiced a... Read More

Does the thought of writing a soul-baring memoir cause you a flood of anxiety? Elissa Altman gets it, but as a teacher of memoir writing, she wants you to embrace the desire to write your story, if indeed that is your dream. “The... Read More

33 Place Brugmann / Alice Austen / Grove Press / Hardcover $28.00 (368pp) / 978-0-8021-6408-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Alice Austen’s engrossing historical novel 33 Place Brugmann, World War II disrupts a... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Roohi Choudhry, Author of Outside Women / What does kinship and solidarity look like for women on society’s margins? In her novel Outside Women, Roohi Choudhry explores the hardships misogyny and... Read More

“Most of the traditional cures that are to be found in contemporary Ireland can be regarded as faith cures. … Those who seek a cure generally have faith in it and believe it will work, and this conviction is seen as contributing to... Read More

The Gorgon’s Fury / Tales of Newel and Doren: A Fablehaven Adventure / Brandon Mull / Shadow Mountain Publishing / Hardcover $17.99 (192pp) / 978-1-63993-379-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Brandon Mull’s exciting... Read More