Books, Arts, and Culture

Basing on the number of folks who labeled books as “currently reading” this month, the site has pulled together the 20 most popular books on Goodreads....

1. Kingston, New York, sits two hours north of New York City on the Hudson. Refugees from Brooklyn have recently put down their version of roots...

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So you want to start a blog? If you’re a writer, it makes perfect sense: You can use a blog to serve as your author platform,...

You can keep playing Stardew Valley forever—and that helped me confront my fear of wrapping things up Photo by PlayStation Europe M y Stardew Valley avatar looks...

Countless books are set in Massachusetts. Many of us probably remember reading authors like Hawthorne, Alcott, Thoreau, and Melville in school and recall and their connections...

Before I’d read any graphic novels my (very misinformed) assumption was that comics are mostly about superheroes and that just wasn’t my thing. Boy, was I...

For three seasons of every year, I dream of moving to the Arctic. Sometimes, I’m “practical” and imagine relocating to Alaska—it’s still in my home country,...

In the editor’s note to my 1990 Dover Thrift Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest, the editor writes, “Oscar Wilde (born in Dublin, 1854; died...

It’s official: the Divergent movies are a poor representation of the books. Moreover, we now know the supposed ending for the franchise won’t be made. That means...