Books, Arts, and Culture

Find stories that challenge notions about rural America and fulfill task #10 of the Read Harder Challenge! Take a look at the cover for Rural Voices:...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Workman Publishing, publisher of Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love, by Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel. Let’s...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Get Booked: The Handsell. “There are tons of...

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” —Audre Lorde At that unhappy moment when Donald Trump took the oath of office with what has...

Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a...

The Cave and For Sama may also strike a nerve with US audiences because they flatter a penitential strain among many American liberals: the belief that...

Susan Sontag began to read philosophy and criticism as a teenager at North Hollywood High, when she still signed her editorials in the school newspaper as...

Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement. “Stop reading this review, just read her...

The question arises at this point, why are there so many black sheep in journalism? Why so many “fakes”? Why is the epidemic of “yellow journalism”...

If one is to judge fashion by glossy magazines, there are really only three major questions of importance: (1) leopard print or not, (2) sexy being...