Books, Arts, and Culture

A monthly roundup of favorite mystery and thriller reviews from the biweekly Unusual Suspects crime newsletter, highlighting some great new releases and backlist mysteries that shouldn’t...

Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of the modern age whose last name isn’t “Patterson.” He’s written 60+ books in his career, and...

This Riot Recommendation listing your favorite books about friendship is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publishers of Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao, now in paperback. An...

This giveaway is sponsored by Crooked Lane Books. Set in present-day and spanning the first five weeks following a traumatic childbirth, Lauren’s hopes and dreams of...

Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. On March 26th, Doubleday Books releases the first graphic...

“America I am unnameable.” Several poems in Shane McCrae’s new book, The Gilded Auction Block, begin with America: the idea, the myth, the collective body. The...

“I have seen sex workers all of my life,” Jessica Ramos declared. “I have seen them denigrated by neighbors. The answer is always, call the police...

Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but...

Since the early 2000s, journalism has been a precarious and embattled profession. The news industry has suffered staggering losses of revenue and employment, and journalists have...

I’m lucky to live in one of the most literary small cities on the East Coast. Well, in Massachusetts, anyway. It also happens to be the...