Books, Arts, and Culture

It’s been a great year for reading! Or, at least, every year is a great year for reading, and I’ve never done as much as I’ve...

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For better and worse, books are how I learn things. Kissing, for instance. Though I wouldn’t get the opportunity to implement this knowledge for another solid...

Electric Lit’s astrologer provides guidance (and writing prompts) to get you through the next few months Photo by Alan Bloom W e begin this season with the winter...

Books to help you keep perspective when everything is awful Photo by Pim Chu I n the last month of 2018, the third millennium appears to be going...

Should You Watch the TV Show of ‘My Brilliant Friend‘ If You Loved the Book? Now that the HBO series has concluded, we can weigh in definitively...

Even the most confident adult can become paralyzed with terror when it comes to children’s book gift ideas. Whether you’re going to a baby shower, a...

At a time when my 4-year-old daughter is suddenly leaning hard into culturally prescribed gender norms—”I can’t be friends with boys because boys are wild,” she...

I haven’t been heavily involved in any fandoms since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I probably did that fandom wrong—I hated both Spuffy and Bangel, primarily...

Epigraphs are a lovely part of books—usually a fancy line from a very old work that the author feels in their soul. This year was (another)...