Books, Arts, and Culture

Chelsea T. Hicks’s A Calm and Normal Heart is a brilliant and breathtaking debut story collection. While it appears straightforward as a twelve-story collection, these stories...

Fairytales, myths, folklore, urban legends, all of those compact, strange stories that we pass from person to person and between generations—they’re the first stories we encounter,...

A new research study by Typing.com — a company that teaches keyboarding, digital literacy, and coding — explored the estimated monthly search volumes on Google and...

Long gone are the days when TikTok was just an app for lip synching teenagers and oldies like me assumed we’d never get involved. TikTok is...

Queer monster romances are the best monster romances. The persistent coding of villains and monsters as queer in decade upon decade of media made by straight...

Summer is a time when many people naturally want to be outside more and do more outdoorsy things, but June is also Great Outdoors Month! I...

As a child of the ’90s, my love of audiobooks started with dramatized classics on cassette, like Little Women and A Christmas Carol. But as technology...

Ah, Pride Month. On the one hand, I love the outpouring of love for the LGBTQIA+ community. Rainbow flags, parades, and words of support and encouragement...