Books, Arts, and Culture

I think about Amy Adams’s performance in HBO’s Sharp Objects adaptation at least once a week. I suck down mysteries like they’re candy, but hardly does one stick...

Earth is an exhausting place to be right now. Rainforests are burning, ice caps are melting, and there are grim projections for the future—not to mention...

Confession: I’m not that into Farenheit 451. Books about books just don’t do it for me. But then I read The Martian Chronicles, and it didn’t...

This children’s book quiz is sponsored by HarperCollins Children’s Books. One minute they’re there: laughing and having fun at the house next door. The next minute, the teens...

This list of YA books about gamers is sponsored by Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing. Ready Player One meets Black Panther in this electrifying book Entertainment Weekly called...

This Riot Recommendation of favorite fake romances is sponsored by The Trouble with Christmas by Amy Andrews. “A holiday romance complete with a surly rancher dude...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Wednesday Books. “The Charles library is without a...

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of  Ta-Nehisi Coates, Leslie Jamison, Ann Patchett, László Krasznahorkai, Chris Ware, Patti Smith and more—that...

It was Afghanistan’s well-heeled foreign minister, Salahuddin Rabbani, the son of a famous jihadist leader, who first used the V-word with me. “I’ve been reading accounts...

The National Book Foundation named its 5 Under 35 honorees for 2019. The program recognizes five debut fiction writers under the age of 35 whose work...