Books, Arts, and Culture

Everyone knows summer is a time for buzzing in the meadows. Bees of all species are out and about, foraging for food and pollinating as they...

“Blue is a boy color!!” “Girls can’t play football!” Hearing gendered stereotypes like these on the playground was a regular occurrence when I was a kid,...

Genres are ways of categorizing books to make them more easily found by readers. Categorizing book genres is a necessity with any large collection. Whether it...

This round-up of YA ballet books is sponsored by Algonquin Young Readers. Best friends Marine and Kate have trained since childhood at the Paris Opera Ballet School....

How to Rob a Bank is a story about love. Dylan is fifteen and really wants to impress the girl that he likes. What he ends...

Where The Wild Things Are is a classic of children’s literature, and for over half a century, adults and children alike have delighted in the world created...

Everyone remembers their first. Whether it was Will Grayson, Will Grayson or Brokeback Mountain, our first exposure to LGBTQ+ life often comes in the form of...

I was late to the Saga party, and mostly on purpose. That is because I am a terrible comic book fan; I don’t want to start...

The symptoms came on slowly. I’d find myself scrolling past a quiz without even hesitating. I wouldn’t bother opening a think piece.  It had been a...

In a recent interview with Essence Magazine, Keanu Reeves mentioned self-identifying as a person of color. More specifically, he identifies as Chinese Canadian. Well, the Asian...