Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. I read two books last week. One was work-related, a ...

Is it possible to pass down the Bible without all the baggage?

This post has been updated. To any young person alarmed by the climate crisis — and frustrated with their parents’ generation for not doing enough to avert it — Lydia Millet’s latest novel may hit ...

Ellen Frankel, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, has labored for the better part of her career to make Jewish traditional texts more palatable to a general audience. The new ...

"Mom, does God love boys more than girls?" When her 6-year-old daughter, Aidah, asked Mariko Clark that question last summer, she was angry, because she knew where it was coming from: Only two stories ...

Lydia Millet’s novels wear their darkness lightly. She is just so funny (in a wry, tannin-dry sort of way), her observations are so sharp, and her details so absurd (mermaids, mysterious voices, ...