An interview with Joseph Orso, author of On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath (Front Porch Republic Books, 2026)

An interview with Amy Gaskin, author of Marilyn Forever! Marilyn Monroe—A Symbol of Hope (Roche, 2026).

Keitlyn Alcántara is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Indiana Bloomington. She is also the author of An Archaeology of Milpa Cultures: Maize and Ecological Worldbuilding in Central Mexico (University Press of Florida, 2026).

An interview with Adrian Young, author of The Myth of the Natural Laboratory: Science, Empire, and Their Derangements on Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands (University of Hawaii Press, 2025)

Grace Mackey interviews Atlantic journalist Nancy Walecki.

An interview with David Santiago, author of Of Dubious Origin (Arte Público Press, 2025)

Interview with Sarah Flocken, author of Be Well (Heliotrope Press, 2026)

An interview with Jessica Yood about her new book The Composition of the Commons: Writing a New Idea of the University (Utah State University Press, 2024)

Interview with Joseph Bottum, author of This Far Country: South Dakota Lines on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2026)

An interview with Dixie Dillon Lane, author of Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How it Went Mainstream (Eerdmans, 2026)

An interview with Tempe Javitz, author of “Bighorn Visions: The Photography of Jessamine Spear Johnson” (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2024)

An interview with Hilary Flower, author of The Kite and the Snail: An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World (University Press of Florida, 2026)

Kelly Ritter is the author of From Liberation to Remediation: The Rhetoric of General Education (Utah State University Press, 2026).

An interview with Douglas Cole, author of a new poetry collection called Drifter (Finishing Line Press, 2025). Douglas Cole has published eight poetry collections, including The Cabin at the End of the World, winner of the Best Book Award in Urban Poetry and the International Impact Book Award. His novel, The White Field, won the American Fiction Award.

An interview with Thomas Hallock, author of The Epic of Florida: Selected Poems by Juan de Castellanos, Bartolomé de Flores, and Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo (Penn State University Press, 2026)

Grace Mackey interviews journalist Jenny Rough.

Newbery and Now: Interview with Daniel Nayeri, author of The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story (Levine Querido, 2025)

An interview with W. Puck Brecher, author of Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan: Four Animal Conservation Paradigms (University of Hawaii Press, 2025).

An interview with Bette A., author and collaborator with Brian Eno on Slow Stories, a unique multi-media project (unnamed press, 2026).

Interview with Alex Sosler, author/co-editor of Hip Hop Theology: Only the Lover Raps (Wipf and Stock, 2026)