Books, Arts, and Culture

This giveaway is sponsored by Flatiron Books. The highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved, New York Times bestselling debut The Hazel Wood! In The Night...

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, sponsored by Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi,...

I just reread Hellfire because Nick Tosches died in October and I needed to pay some kind of tribute. 2019 turned out to the year when I became...

Want to improve your comma usage and other grammar?Become a grammar superstar with editor Ellen Feld’sGrammar Lion course. You may lead a discussion, a writers’ group...

We think about race in America in glimpses. Multiple lenses are needed to illuminate the long histories of injustice, oppression, and cruelty in this country. Colson...

“The General Zapped an Angel”by Howard Fast When news leaked out of Viet Nam that Old Hell and Hardtack Mackenzie had shot down an angel, every...

Told in poetic bursts, Heather Christle’s The Crying Book paints a complex, personal, and far-reaching picture of the universal and under-explored phenomenon of crying. Previously, she’d...

This year has been the year of baby, the year of book baby, a year of anxiety, exhaustion, and the struggle to be present enough to...

I am ashamed how little I’ve read for myself this year—how seldom I’ve allowed myself to reside in the privacy of someone else’s text, how little...