Books, Arts, and Culture

Today, after tallying 5,674,480 votes, Goodreads announced the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards winners. Every year, Goodreads nominates 15 books in each of 20 genre categories and...

I had just begun Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & The Light in March when the pandemic started and at first it seemed the novel would last...

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This was the year I found out Art Garfunkel has kept a list of every book he’s read since he was 28 years old. You can...

(This essay contains almost immediate spoilers for The Undoing, as well as discussion of birth trauma) At the end of HBO’s prestige drama The Undoing, we...

Under recently announced Supreme Court constitutional ground rules, the government violates the First Amendment when, without a compelling justification, it treats religious behavior better or worse...

If you can’t go out in the real world, why not at least read about it? These memoirs, essay collections, and deeply-researched reported works kept our...

I’ve always been fascinated by the sociological study of generations. As a devout enthusiast of pop culture, I find it interesting to learn how historical events...

With many students and professionals working from home, it feels like the perfect time to take advantage of the flexibility and fly off to a seaside...

In raising my daughters, I have sought to find books with Asian American characters so that they can see themselves in the stories they read. I...