Books, Arts, and Culture

In case you’re not plugged in to lesbian Twitter, there’s (finally) new buzz about The L Word reboot. It’s been a hundred years since 2017 when...

Translator Rachael Daum lives in Belgrade, Serbia. In addition to her work for the American Literary Translators Association, she also translates from five languages. Two are big...

One of the most devastating lies we tell ourselves is that creativity is something you’re born with. In reality, each of us has the capacity to...

Even as an atheist who reads Narnia books, I know it’s a cliché to think of them as a Christian allegory. I wish I didn’t. When...

Say what you will about a life of perfidy and misconduct, it’s fun to read about criminality. Devotees of true crime will insist that they’re there...

There’s nothing more exciting for a book lover than being surrounded by a beautiful personal library. If you’re like me and a little ~extra obnoxious~ in...

It was announced on Tuesday that Neil Gaiman, author of Neverwhere and American Gods (among others), is attached to a revival of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, a series...

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“For years the old Italians have been dying/all over America.” –Lawrence Ferlinghetti On the second floor of Harvard’s Fogg Museum, in an airy, well-lit, white-walled gallery,...

During the Troubles, the British government tried hard to recruit informants, or “touts,” as they were called, among the paramilitary gangs on both sides of the...