Books, Arts, and Culture

“Childhood’s a long training in never minding all you’re losing, everything that’s falling, crashing, being taken”—Lia Purpura’s essays unfold in rich, detail-driven vignettes, but every so...

An eyewitness’s identification of an accused defendant often provides some of the most dramatic and powerful evidence in a criminal case. “Do you see in this...

Sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get...

Listen, just because we’re a literary website doesn’t mean we’re above loving comics giant Warren Ellis—author of Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Nextwave, and the criminally underrated...

Set in and around a performing arts high school in the 1980s, Pulitzer prize finalist Susan Choi’s latest novel, Trust Exercise, introduces Sarah and David, caught...

When I entered the world of Indonesian literary translation several years ago, I was blissfully unaware of how dysfunctional it was. (Nor did I suspect that...

When I was offered the opportunity to interview Camilla d’Errico I immediately said yes. I love the work she’s done for Disney’s Tokyo Pop line, Sanrio (my daughter...