Food. It’s not just what we eat. We talk about it, write about it, dream about it, paint pictures of it, and finally become it. In Sandra M. Gilbert’s The Culinary Imagination, the poet and... Read More

In nature, absent humans, you rarely find truly altruistic behavior, and when you do, there’s an explanation available that shows how that behavior arises through what you might call natural causes. So mama bear risks... Read More

When someone finds their group, their kind of people, it’s easy to sometimes overdo the joining process. Often, this happens in the teen years and is part of the reason teenage personalities seem so extreme.... Read More

Relax, It’s Just God (released today by Brown Paper Press) is a thought-provoking entry in the expanding category of secular parenting advice. It was written by Wendy Thomas Russell, an award-winning journalist who many will... Read More

The story of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has been in the headlines for almost two decades, but few have taken on the challenge of writing about it in fiction. Gregory Alexander’s novel The... Read More

Tales from Gombe is an intimately illustrated coffee table book created by wildlife photographers Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers. It details the simian soap operas and political scandals occurring amongst a community of wild chimpanzees... Read More

It was the twentieth-century Italian social theorist Antonio Gramsci who gave us the concept of a hegemonic ideology—an ideology that has so successfully beaten out its competitors that it no longer appears to be an... Read More