Books, Arts, and Culture

Years ago, when I worked at a hospital on the east side of Manhattan, I covered midnight shifts a few nights a month. I was often...

Library workers are trained professionals. Most librarians spend thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars to earn a master’s degree which helps teach them not only...

In the 2022 school year, I decided to run a comic book club in the school library that I manage. I’ve run a manga club for...

As the days get shorter in the northern hemisphere, we all start settling into our homes and looking at the list of crafty projects we want...

I can pinpoint the exact day I became a dragon book kid. It all began in a Waldenbooks in the mall. Remember those weekend days as...

It’s a great day and age to be a booklover. Social media has made it a lot easier to find bookish communities. We see it all...

A book needs to be both enduring and pretty weird to get as many covers as A Wrinkle in Time has gotten since it was published...

In many ways, we’re often encouraged to get out of our houses and our heads and immerse ourselves in nature. Hiking, biking, walking: they’re all on...

Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPG) seem to get more popular with each passing year, and dungeon masters everywhere are constantly looking for...

In 1984, Peter Brooks, now an emeritus professor of Comparative Literature at Yale, published Reading for the Plot, in which he argued that “[o]ur lives are...