Books, Arts, and Culture

If you’ve read anything by Shirley Jackson, you’ve surely noticed that there is a sense of magic running through it at all times, sometimes subtle and...

August is Women in Translation Month! Roughly 30% of books published in English translation are written by women, according to numbers pulled from the translation database started by...

When I first started getting into comics as a young teen (Astonishing X-Men, anyone?) it required knowing exactly which comic book or graphic novel I wanted...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe spent more than a decade as a boys’ club, but that’s changing now. Captain Marvel, Wandavision, and Black Widow have proven that...

Every author makes a conscious choice to write from a particular point of view (POV), but that choice has tremendous weight in romance in particular. When...

We’ve all been there: bleary-eyed, sipping a cup of coffee with a story stuck in your head like a song, an after-effect of having spent the...

When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral in the Earth’s crust, they have no idea that it happens to be a material so precious that...