7 Stories About Mermaids, Selkies, and Sea-Wolves
The final frontier is an epithet famously attached to outer space. Don’t strap on a spacesuit just yet, though: closer to hand, our home planet remains...
The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Is Rewriting the Typical Image of the Cowboy
The plink-plink of a tack piano gives way to the voice of Kristin Windbigler, executive director of The Western Folklife Center, asserting “2020 taught us that...
Ernest Frankenstein: In Search of a Missing Character
SPOILER WARNING: Major spoilers ahead for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley In her groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley does away with almost all...
Quiz: Which Bridgerton Sibling Are You?
Ready for a Bridgerton sibling quiz? There are eight of them, so you have a lot of possible outcomes. Are you independent and rebellious like Eloise?...
25 Must-Read 2021 Picture Books For Your Child’s Bookshelves
A lot of excellent picture books are releasing in 2021, from books that celebrate identity to ones that address the COVID-19 pandemic to silly books about...
11 Books About the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
On this day, February 19, Japanese Americans observe the Day of Remembrance, which marks the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. This order, which...
7 Audiobooks for Times When Being an Adult is Too Much
There’s something particularly reassuring and downright optimistic about kids overcoming obstacles and winning the day when times are tough. That’s why, when I found myself in...
12 Books Like THE SELECTION To Read After the Series
After you’ve fallen in love with America Singer and Maxon Schreave, you may have a love triangle hangover that won’t go away. The cure, of course,...
Sometimes There Are No Good Choices: The Millions Interviews Robbie Arnott
A heron made of storm. A squid culled for its ink. A society broken by coup and disintegration. Floods, droughts, hiding in caves, and offering blood...
The Reader of Rocks
In 1815 William Smith published the first detailed geological map of an entire country. Its scope was ambitious, as his long, practical-poetic title suggests: A Delineation...
