Books, Arts, and Culture

I recently read The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead for the first time. It was an amazing story about Cora, a young slave, who runs away...

For those unfamiliar, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being from Slavic folklore. Usually appearing as a frightening old woman, she dwells deep in the forest in...

Christian Robinson is an award-winning children’s book illustrator who is a 2016 Caldecott Honoree and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art...

Looking for a YA novel to add to your rom-com TBR? Check out Maurene Goo’s Somewhere Only We Know, and read the excerpt below! Sparks fly...

Sponsored by the Read Harder Journal. Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to record stats, impressions, and reviews of...

This week’s featured book trailer is sponsored by Nan A. Tales/Doubleday, publishers of The Handmaid’s Tale Graphic Novel. Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been...

Sponsored by The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton. Published by Graydon House Books. The UC Berkeley Library Edible Book Festival, held this year on March 18,...

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder that few of us understand. Too often we reduce it to misconceptions and stereotypes—equating it, for instance, with split personality disorder;...

Throughout my adulthood, I felt alien in Britain, never properly settling there but returning for a few years at a time. I have sometimes aired my...