Books, Arts, and Culture

Nawaaz Ahmed has a particular talent for fiction that captures the spaces in between distant bodies. When we were both MFA students at the University of...

If you read in English, chances are that there are a few countries that take up the vast majority of your reading. Only 2–4% of books published in...

Somewhere between 70 and 85 million people died in World War II, about 3% of the world’s population in 1940. The conflict reached across the globe,...

Science fiction and fantasy may be out of this world (literally!), but they have a lot to teach us if we’re willing to listen. In fact,...

I’ve never been big on nostalgia, but the reality is, we’re in dark times and have been in dark times for (checks watch) all of our...

In progressive circles, disabled folks are all too often left out of conversations around inclusion and intersectionality. But you can’t achieve comprehensive social justice without disability...

My history with “New Adult” (NA) books goes way back. As a first-generation college student from a very small high school staring down a large University...

The TV show Ted Lasso was not at all on my radar until I started to hear about it everywhere — from friends, on social media,...

Who is Captain Marvel? Who is Ms. Marvel? What’s the difference? Turns out there are quite a few differences between Ms. Marvel vs. Captain Marvel! I’m...