Books, Arts, and Culture

Winners of the 2022 National Book Awards were announced in a live awards ceremony on November 16 in New York City. From the 25 finalists unveiled...

How do you discuss something so intimate and uncomfortable as finding a spouse, without laughing or crying or cringing in embarrassment or fear? How do you...

The memoir Heretic opens with Jeanna Kadlec boarding a bus to the Middlesex County Courthouse in Massachusetts, where she is filing for divorce against her husband,...

I hold SFF in translation very close to my heart. On one hand, it lets me read all kinds of new and wonderful stories from around...

BookTok readers are the trendsetters in every genre, including mystery novels. Walk into any bookstore right now, and you’ll notice the mystery bestsellers shelves aren’t all...

Dungeons and Dragons has been enjoying a renaissance for several years now, thanks to actual plays and podcasts such as Critical Role and The Adventure Zone,...

When I was growing up as a disabled kid, I read disability representation in books ranging from sparse to blatantly ableist and dehumanizing. In 2016, Corinne...

Why is “minor” used so often in its most frustrating sense? “Oh, Sula is just a minor Morrison novel”—I imagine it spoken by a tweedy critic or the worst guy in...