Books, Arts, and Culture

So you’re reading a book. And right at the beginning, it says something about how the mother dies. You’re sitting right there. Does the novel know...

There’s never enough time. Fifty-two weeks. Three hundred sixty-five days. Even if you’ve won that Goodreads challenge (which, to be honest, beyond making sure I’m not...

Sometimes you start reading a story and within five pages you sit up, enchanted and a bit stunned at how easily the characters have wrapped you...

Sometimes it feels that all conversations in the UK eventually turn to Brexit. Literary conversations are no exception. Jonathan Coe might be the ideal chronicler of...

I love time travel. I have talked about this before. And I will entertain any type of media that gives me a fun reason to follow...

This list of January 2019 YA nonfiction releases is sponsored by The NOVL. After the shocking revelations and betrayals in The Cruel Prince, Jude continues to navigate...

This giveaway is sponsored by The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict. She possessed a stunning beauty and a stunning mind. Could the world handle...

Sponsored by our Unusual Suspects giveaway of $100 to the bookstore of your choice! Next January, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue will fall into the public...

It seems appetite is limitless and everyone is its victim. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, University of York historian David Wootton explores how and why the...

Instead of joining Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic in sliding toward authoritarianism, hundreds of thousands of Slovaks have rallied around their fragile democracy. Protesters in...