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 ...

A CHILDREN’S BIBLE. By Lydia Millet. Norton. 224 pages. $25.95. “After every war, someone has to tidy up.” This is the opening line of “The End and the Beginning,” a poem by the great Wislawa ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Local pastor and author Sylvia A. Thomas presents her fourth book, “Adam and Eve” in her children’s Bible Story book’s series, The Judah Collection. “Adam and Eve” is the biblical story of creation.

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. After a punishing storm ...

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, ...

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 ...