10 New Poetry Collections by Latinx and Caribbean Writers
This has been a particularly powerful year for Latinx and Caribbean diaspora poetry. While perusing these ten collections, two vital things made themselves abundantly clear: this...
AI Isn’t The Threat to High School English. Censorship Is: Book Censorship News, December 16, 2022
Making its rounds on social media over the past two weeks is a story from The Atlantic about the end of high school English class. It’s...
The Pantone Color of the Year 2023, Book Cover Edition
Since about 2014, I’ve always kept an eye on Pantone’s Color of the Year. I like this idea of a color defining or giving shape to...
The Bookish Internet Killed My Reading Life
Yesterday, I was standing in front of my desk, piled high with books I had checked out from the library or received for review, trying to...
8 Unputdownable Books About Podcasts
Podcasts have become an integral part of our everyday life. We listen to them while doing chores and carrying out errands, while driving or taking public...
Why Horror Is Such A Hard Genre to Crack
I do not like to be scared. Seeking out media that is designed to be scary — books, films, TV shows, or, I don’t know, music...
Best & Worst Fictional Families To Spend The Holidays With
Despite all the candles, tinsel, gifts, and pie, Americans consistently rate the holidays as the most stressful time of the year. That holiday stress may be...
8 Books About Book Clubs
We know that books about books are popular with readers – and, by extension, so are books about book clubs. This particular category is about more...
Cookbook Showdown: The Best Gingerbread Recipes, Tested
It’s time for another holiday edition of Cookbook Showdown. This time, we’re focusing on gingerbread, my favorite flavor of the holiday season. That mixture of ginger...
5 Speculative Fiction Books Featuring Tarot:The List List #502
Lost are the creatures destined never to be understood. 1926, stuffy London is the site for the unseemly exploits of half-Dutch, half-German sisters Anneliese and Isabel: passion-pursuant...
