Books, Arts, and Culture

Yoon Choi’s debut short story collection has a striking cover: two figures, simply and starkly outlined in solid colors, embrace amidst darkness. One figure is the...

Putting together a list of horror books for beginners is quite a daunting task. The horror label collides with many others: thrillers, mysteries, speculative fiction, the...

While I read mostly all genres, and widely, I read a ton of crime books (mystery, suspense, thriller, crime fiction, true crime) because I’ve always loved...

If you follow the manga scene long enough, you’ll run into mentions of light novels sooner or later. If you’re an anime fan who checks out...

Have you ever stumbled upon the letters ISBN when people talk about book stuff, and always wondered what exactly an ISBN is, but you were always...

In the past, romance novels were often unfairly written off as cheap, sleazy reads with Fabio on their clinch covers. Remember him? With his flowing blonde...

The rise of crowdfunding platforms has opened up a world of opportunity to independent comics creators. Without the backing of a large traditional publisher like Marvel...

Of all the formal traditions in poetry, the sonnet might be the most famous. I blame Shakespeare. He wrote 154 of them that have been reprinted...