Books, Arts, and Culture

I’ve always been casually interested in attending a Renaissance faire. As a kid, the idea of prancing around a village full of actors and vendors in...

You’ve done therapy, you’ve (hopefully) talked about your feelings together. Your relationship is over, one way or another, and there’s only one thing left to deal...

I’ve been thinking a lot about grief recently. Someone very close to me lost their child last fall, and it sent reverberations of loss and pain...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publishers of Save Me From Dangerous Men by S.A. Lelchuk. Nikki Griffin isn’t your typical private investigator. In...

This round-up of collections of poetry published since 2014 is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal.  Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of...

This week’s featured book trailer is sponsored by Blackstone Publishing. Blackstone Publishing is proud to relaunch Gregory Mcdonald’s bestselling Fletch Mysteries starring the iconic literary antihero of...

Sponsored by Forge Books. You may have heard of, and even read, some of the modern day bestsellers from the likes of E L James, John...

In February of 2018, Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor, and Carrie Wittmer published a satirical erotica piece on the humor site McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. It...

He Jiankui’s announcement that in November that he had created the first two gene-edited humans in history was met with universal condemnation. Hundreds of Chinese scientists...