Books, Arts, and Culture

October may be primarily known as spooky season. But to me, it’s also “curl up in a cozy spot and stay indoors with the thickest book...

With days full of rituals — morning, writerly, and nightly — I reflected on my bookish ones. From revisiting snippets of beloved collections in my writing...

Alisha Rai romances are all character-driven, deeply emotional, and very sexy. Sometimes very, very sexy! In general, I wish we had better language to describe how...

I happen to think that every season is reading season, but there’s something about reading in the fall — when the weather is just cool enough...

I know what you’re thinking: ma’am, it is October. Halloween candy is still on the shelves and I’m over here talking about holiday travel — how...

Fantasy! Arguably the largest and most popular speculative genre. Fantasy has been a part of literature, a part of storytelling, since the beginning of civilization. As...

In The Hundred Waters, Lauren Acampora conjures cul-de-sacs, country clubs, and art galleries to draw readers deep into the fictional town of Nearwater, Connecticut. The tightly-paced novel—one...