Books, Arts, and Culture

In 1904, my great-great-grandfather (Max) mailed my great-great-grandmother (Rose) a birthday present. He was traveling at the time, and my family is fortunate enough to have...

Books are back in and venture capitalists are definitely going to start investing, any day now, in innovative book businesses. It’s only a matter of time...

Fox aired a “live show” of Rent on Sunday, January 27. At least, that was the plan. Roger’s actor Brennin Hunt broke his leg, and he...

It’s no easy task to raise a child who speaks more than one language. My son has both Cuban and Mexican heritage, so it’s really important...

We’re getting a shiny new audiobook edition of Philippa Gregory’s compelling and buzzy historical fiction, The Other Boleyn Girl. Take a listen to this audio excerpt, narrated...

The 2019 Read Harder Challenge is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal. Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Two brothers meet for the first time in months in the Australian outback; their...

To the Editors: Michael Greenberg’s essay “In the Valley of Fear” captures the overwhelming sense of anxiety among many farm laborer families in California. Daily life...

To the Editors: In the article “California: The State of Resistance,” Michael Greenberg wrote, “I was surprised to see virtually no new construction in Berkeley.” I...

Sponsored by Flatiron Books. Of all the grammar concepts we have, “plural” seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It’s singular....