Books, Arts, and Culture

Africa’s wild places became a scenic backdrop to Westerners’ feats of machismo. In the second half of the nineteenth century, hunting big game was seen as...

Etaf Rum, author of “A Woman Is No Man,” recommends novels about families that span centuries Photo by Cheryl Winn-Boujnida on Unsplash Family stories are key ways...

Persist: A Feminist Book Club is presented by Flatiron Books, publishers of Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao, now in paperback. An electrifying debut novel about the...

Netflix has announced that it has acquired the rights to develop Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Originally published in 1967, One Hundred Years of...

Good Omens, the hilarious and irreverent novel collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, is headed to Amazon on May 31 as a mini-series. It’s about...

The Nobel Foundation has announced in a press release that the Nobel Prize in Literature will once again be awarded during this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony...

We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about...

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...

My body has gone. It doesn’t need me anymore. It reminds me of myself, saying prayers, sharing old stories. We are deep in something, with this...

Maryse Meijer recommends a previously out-of-print story about how toxic notions of romance destroy us Photo by Vidar Kristiansen on Unsplash Issue №355 Jump to story INTRODUCTION BY MARYSE MEIJER...