Books, Arts, and Culture

On the morning of November 9, I received an email from a university colleague. “We’ve been a bit rattled by the military plane flying at night...

the miracle I am so grateful each morning that we have not yet eviscerated each other completely. it sticks in my teeth (the being alive /...

I have picked up the same book five times this year to read the first 30 pages. I always stop at 30. In between attempts, I...

In the best of years, holiday shopping has a way of sneaking up on gift list procrastinators like me. In years past, I’d spend a leisurely...

There is nothing I miss more right now than live theatre. At the beginning of lockdown, I took advantage of the National Theatre’s pro-shot productions that...

2020 has been a bananas year in every way possible, and in publishing, some books that deserved more readers haven’t received the kind of press they...

Barack Obama has never been shy about sharing his opinions on books, music, pop culture and more. And now, with his newly released best-selling memoir A...

It struck me recently that B-list comics villains, especially those with roots in the DC mythos, have enjoyed a renaissance since the advent of The CW’s Arrowverse. Their...

The future of movie theatres may be up in the air, but we know movies will exist in some form (streaming? VOD? drive-ins?) in 2021. As...

These four modern classics use poetry as a central tool for addressing hard-hitting topics young readers face in their daily lives—grief, abuse, gun violence, racial justice...