Books, Arts, and Culture

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and other new films are filling a huge but often unnoticed gap in our storytelling Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy...

Shirley Barrett on cancer as a demonic infestation Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash I n the first line of The Bus on Thursday — the latest novel from...

The author of “Our Kind of Cruelty” adds her picks to our Read More Women series Araminta Hall’s thriller Our Kind of Cruelty gets deeply into the...

Around 1730 Johann Sebastian Bach began to recycle his earlier works in a major way. He was in his mid-forties at the time, and he had...

Last November, Rioter Jessica Plummer wrote a really excellent post on all of the Captains Marvel. I’m going to do a quick refresher on the two who...

My copy of Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune was a gift. A friend of mine gave me her tattered paperback copy with a defiant young woman...

Information literacy is—excuse me—bigly important. While propaganda, public relations, and other manipulation, misrepresentation, and twisting of information have always been a challenge in society, it’s become...

Audiobooks are a great way to get your reading in if you don’t have the time to stop and sit and focus your eyeballs on words....

For me, being a teenage girl was a time of intimate friendships and awkwardness, during which I pursued my creative ambitions with abandon, loved the things...

Fantasy is my jam so of course now that I have a child, I want her to have all the fantasy things. Thankfully, there are plenty...