Books, Arts, and Culture

I’ve lived in Los Angeles, a city with about 5 million Mexican American residents, for almost 20 years. I love it here, and I really love...

You know that blissful feeling you get from staying home, snuggled up with a book, and missing out on all that seemingly fun stuff everyone is...

Have you ever had a day when your Feelings with a capital F just invade your mind? And you’re left wanting to scream and curse the...

Despite my best intentions to be a better person, I have to confess I tend to heavily judge books by their covers—or at least, I’m more...

“Hey, whatever happened to…?” I am often able to answer that question, because I love a good celebrity memoir. In an industry that prizes youth above...

The List List, a weekly roundup of the best bookish lists, is sponsored by The Plus One from HarperCollins 360. Polly Spencer is single and turning thirty,...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by The Plus One from HarperCollins 360. “Over the...

May Attaway—the protagonist of Jessica Francis Kane’s fourth book, Rules for Visiting—is not your usual middle-aged woman: She prefers plants over people, and at 40 years...

I could see an arm of the lake on our left, orchards mixed with houses on our right. “Gee,” I said, “I have no memory of...