Books, Arts, and Culture

In May 2019, novelist Ruqaya Izzidien launched the website Muslim Impossible. The new site reviews fictional Muslim and Arab characters in film, TV, and literature. But...

Because 2019 marks 200 years of celebrating the life of Walt Whitman, there has been no shortage of Whitmanian events and exhibits. The Walt Whitman Birthplace will...

Last month I posted about a sponsored read I was doing in memory of my brother. The plan was simple, to read five YA novels in...

How are we only a few months away from the end of 2019? It seems like we were putting together our reading resolutions just yesterday! In...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by All That’s Dead by Stuart MacBride. Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice, simple case—something to ease him back...

This list of audiobooks for back to school is sponsored by hibooks – the club for audiobook lovers. Calling all audiobook nerds! The hibooks club is waiting for...

This featured book trailer is sponsored by Malamander by Thomas Taylor and illustrated by Tom Booth. Available from Walker Books U.S. It’s winter in the town of...

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, sponsored by Flatiron Books. “The attention the textbook garnered led...

I first met Amy Long through a writers’ networking group where she often answered questions with extreme thoughtfulness and generosity. We became friends, and Long was...

“All my favorite singers couldn’t sing,” David Berman crooned. Berman—along with other indie greats also gone too young: the sublime, alcoholic Jason Molina of the Magnolia...