Books, Arts, and Culture

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history when the astronauts became the first people to step onto the surface of Earth’s Moon....

Like many American high schoolers, I was primarily introduced to “the classics” in the classroom. We read mostly (dry, old, dead) white men: George Orwell, Charles...

Earlier this year, we brought you a list of the 50 Best Kindle Unlimited Books for 2019. But now that it is July it’s time to dig...

One of the things I like to buy for my fellow bookish friends and family are book accouterments, such as bookends. So I’ve scoped out some...

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and Director of Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) where she also earned her MFA in Writing. A...

This list of Colson Whitehead books is sponsored by Doubleday. In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal. Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to record stats,...

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Libro.fm “Yet somehow cookbooks stuck around. In...

All of Mark Haddon’s fiction for adults has, until now, been rooted in contemporary realism: emotionally intelligent, yet possessed of a light touch and a sweetly...