Books, Arts, and Culture

Every year, a new batch of books comes into the public domain as their copyright term expires. Once a work is in the public domain, no...

Books line every corner of my apartment, and I’m constantly reading whenever possible. I read about 50 books from cover to cover this year and my...

Impossible, I’ve worried since this assignment came in, to write a Year in Reading about a grief-filled time in which reading for pleasure was often impossible....

This was the year when everything seemed to happen to me. I suppose what I mean is that I underwent seismic changes after a few years...

I didn’t accomplish much in 2022. I didn’t publish a book, or really very much at all—the only thing I can think of is a single...

I spent the last week of last year reading Checkout-19, by Claire-Louise Bennett. I was in southern Colorado for Christmas. Multi-colored lights in all the windows...