Books, Arts, and Culture

1.Guiding my food tray through the crowded cafeteria, I leaned toward the young woman sitting by the window and whispered, “The ducks fly at midnight.” She...

It is hard to give up something you claim you never had. That is the difficulty Americans face with respect to their country’s empire. Since the...

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The show breaks ground by showing how young men make sense of their bodies and the expectations placed on them A boner is a funny thing. Funny-ha-ha,...

In “The Dreamers,” residents of a college town fall into a deep sleep they can’t wake up from Over the course of two books, Karen Thompson Walker...

Angela Readman, author of “Something Like Breathing,” recommends literature about women during the postwar boom Still from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel There are some things that stay with...

If you are reading this post, you are probably a teacher, parent, or someone else who spends time with beginning readers. You know the beautiful sound...

The term self-insert has always fascinated me. A character who’s a blank slate, who allegedly a group of diverse readers can replace with themselves and lose...

Whether you think Marie Kondo’s methods are the best or the worst, there’s no denying that with the adaptation of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up on Netflix...

I write about prison writers, so I might be biased, but I often love prison narratives, be it fiction or memoir. That said, it can be...