Books, Arts, and Culture

2019 is shaping up to be a great year for books by Muslim authors. As we ease into another Ramadan, there’s no better way to show...

As Mother’s Day approaches, I have been thinking of my own years of motherhood. I have three grown children, and I am fortunate to have had...

In a while-ago Literary Tourism post, I talked about my love for my uber-bookish hometown, Oxford in the UK. Oxford has a ton of literary connections,...

It wasn’t until I went to group therapy that I really understood the power of finding solidarity and understanding with other members of the mentally ill...

I remember sitting on our striped couch in the TV room, watching Sarah Plain and Tall, the made-for-TV movie starred Glenn Close and Christopher Walken, with my...

As a children’s bookseller, there are many days when parents, educators, and readers come looking for books written by Black authors, especially if they’re books about...

This list of Pride and Prejudice retellings is sponsored by Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an...

This list of YA books with song lyric titles is sponsored by Always Smile by Alice Kuipers from KCP Loft. Seventeen-year-old Carley Allison had it all. She was...

This giveaway is sponsored by Penguin Random House Canada. Bestselling and award-winning author Todd Babiak returns with an immersive story about fourteen-year-old Adam Lisinki and his...

Sponsored by Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev, published by William Morrow It’s important for us to see the myriad ways our common language...