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 ...

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 ...

After a punishing storm sweeps through their shared vacation home, a group of children decide to run away. They’re annoyed with their parents’ responses to the catastrophe—many of whom chose to ...