New Releases Tuesday: The Best Books Out This Week
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to...
Whether You’re a Gentleman Pirate or a Blackbeard, You’ll Love These 10 Books Like Our Flag Means Death
Imagine a pirate ship with secret passageways full of fancy clothes, an entire library of built-in bookcases, fine china place settings, and a crew that deals...
How the Code of Chivalry of Medieval Knights Still Influences SFF Today
I’ve always been enamored by science fiction and fantasy. Stories about space travel, wizards, spells, and aliens really have a way of sparking the imagination of...
Afrofuturism: Its Origins, Present, and Future
If you google “What is Afrofuturism?” you’ll probably see the same combination of words together like Mark Dery, Black Panther, and “aesthetic.” In his essay “Black...
The Best Poems of All Time
How do you decide the best poems of all time? Are they the ones most quoted? The ones that have had the greatest influence on poetry...
The History Of Bookmobiles: Bookmobiles Are Here, And There And Everywhere, To Stay
Annually, the American Library Association (ALA) sponsors National Library Week and honors bookmobiles and the librarians that drive them with their own day — Wednesday, to...
How Video Games Helped Me Fall Back in Love With Reading
As a child, reading was the only real escape for me when I wanted a good fantasy adventure. I loved the action, battle, and magic, but...
Getting the Job Done: Superheroes and the Immigrant Experience
Superheroes have been used, interpreted, and misinterpreted as a metaphor for just about everything. One of the most enduring comparisons is the superhero as immigrant. Superman,...
Cookbook Showdown: The Best Grilled Cheese Recipes, Tested
Happy National Grilled Cheese Day! I am excited to report back in this series of cookbook showdowns which could easily be called, ‘Things My Toddler will...
THE PARIS LIBRARY WAR WIDOW, And Other Bestsellers That Don’t Exist
Landing on the bestseller list is an elusive accomplishment. The bestseller list doesn’t necessarily connote quality (though it can), but it often signals that a publisher...
