Books, Arts, and Culture

Not long ago, Hari Kunzru was asked in an interview, “What is the worst-case scenario for the future?” He answered with brutal lucidity: The US becomes...

To the Editors: We appreciate Peter E. Gordon’s thoughtful review of Charisma and Disenchantment, our edition of Max Weber’s “vocation lectures” [NYR, June 11], but of...

If, like me, you’re a baby boomer who pleaded as a child to stay up with the big kids to watch The Twilight Zone, you might...

A definitive fact: Tamora Pierce is the true heroine of early-2000s YA fantasy. I’m far from the only teenager to have benefitted from Pierce’s frank depictions...

Entering the odd and exquisitely nonlinear world Marie-Helene Bertino’s Parakeet dislocates over and over. The novel begins with the unnamed bride protagonist talking to her deceased...

I am an introvert. In the right environment, with the right people, I can extrovert the hell out of a day or a con or a...

For those of you who want your Halloween seasonally spooky reads LGBTQ, I’ve got a list for you! Here are six awesome queer Halloween books, from...

Since Rebecca hit Netflix last week, many people find themselves revisiting the iconic book. But there’s always the last page, and once you’ve finished there, where...

This is my open letter to all the books I’ve lied about reading. I hope I’m not alone in this. There are so many books out...

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