Books, Arts, and Culture

1.This year’s Tribeca Film Festival featured a new category called “This Used to Be New York.” One of the category’s three entries was the Australian filmmaker...

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For the American right, Donald Trump’s inauguration as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a moment of political rebirth. Elements of American conservatism had...

How can the contemporary novel speak the unspeakable? It’s an old question, a tired one perhaps, now that “the unspeakable” has come to encompass many forms...

We all know by now that winter is here, and the long night has passed, but you know what will never pass? GAME OF THRONES TATTOOS....

Barnes & Noble has been around for many years (since 1873, according to the company website), and has evolved significantly throughout its history.  The Very Model...

The gender non-conforming dressing heroine is definitely one of my favourite tropes. There’s the element of danger, because of course she can’t risk being found out....

Gardening books have changed my fashion aesthetic! I used to be a yoga-panted athleisure-wearing suburban soccer mom (by outward appearance; I neither do yoga, nor do...

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