Books

The holiday season is in full swing, which heralds gorging oneself on too much food, being inundated with Christmas songs in every department store, and watching heartwarming specials on TV and at the movie...

As much as we sometimes think of ourselves as islands, no woman or man is. Nobody does it alone. Our relationships—including our friendships—inform who we are, what we choose to do, and what we accomplish....

Alien, the science fiction/horror film focusing on a Xenomorph extraterrestrial killing its way through the crew of a commercial space ship, is filled with all manner of frights and terror to keep viewers...

Author Lindsey S. Frantz comes by both her love of Appalachia honestly. Growing up in Kentucky, she has an appreciation for the beauty of the environment and the people of the area that shines through in her...

Whether you know of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit only through director Peter Jackson’s adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy novels or your entryway into Middle-Earth was through the...

Daniel Kibblesmith is looking to add some diversity to the Christmas holiday season. This October, the staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the comiXology-exclusive comic Valiant...

Red Range is a wild, weird, woolly, and imperfect ride, but definitely one that’s worth taking, blending genres in a way that is dizzying and delightful. Cover of Red Range from It's Alive Press. Art...

All too often in history, women’s achievements in STEM fields, business, and in so many other professions and fields have been obscured, hidden, or outright stolen simply because they were women. As such,...

Such a Lovely Little War is a remarkable graphic novel that engages both heart and head, and Truong’s artwork provides an abstracted realism that perfectly reinforces both the viewpoint of a six year-old,...

Over the past 60 years the kinds of wars fought by the United States and its allies have changed dramatically. After a brief period of major combat operations, modern conflicts too often devolve into an...