The National Book Critics Circle announced its 2019 Award Winners, and the winners of three additional prizes: the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, John Leonard Prize, and Nona Balakian Citation...
Hilma af Klint was a skilled painter of portraits and landscapes who in the first decades of the twentieth century began making hundreds of strange pictures...
Maura Roosevelt, great-granddaughter of FDR, recommends books on atypical family arrangements Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash I grew up in a loud and busy home, where...
Advice on setting a schedule from Edith Wharton, Zadie Smith, and Hilary Mantel This piece is excerpted from Daily Rituals: Women at Work, a collection of the...
What books do most people think are red flags? Twitter found out this week Relationships are hard. Whether they are with romantic partners or friends, it’s no...
Defense Against the Dark Arts is where, pun intended, so much of the magic happens in Harry Potter. It is almost unarguably the most exciting class...
The Good Omens experience at SXSW 2019 in Austin was a dream. I attended a party where there were sword swallowers, prophecies, and a replica of...
If you’re like me, you can pull space exploration- and astronomy-related moments out of your childhood memories, still replete with wonder: of Halley’s Comet shooting by,...
I love reading historical fiction; I always have. Growing up, I was fed a healthy diet of Little House on the Prairie, the Dear America Series, and...
In over 35 years as a Christian, I have taken part in more small group book studies than I can count. Bible studies, women’s groups, Sunday...
