Books, Arts, and Culture

We need some haiku about cherry blossoms right now to keep us as hopeful. As Percy Bysshe Shelley famously wrote, “If Winter comes, can Spring be...

The continued success of the Jurassic Park franchise just goes to show that most of us never got over our childhood fascinations with our prehistoric pals...

Represent your love of reading anywhere with these three bookish phone wallpapers. To save them to your phone, just press and hold the image and hit...

Shortly after ISIS arrived in Palmyra, the regime launched air strikes on the city, heedless of its ancient monuments. A decade earlier, in 2003, the photographer...

George Hutchinson’s Facing the Abyss has bracing and revelatory things to say about American culture in the 1940s; also, by contrast and implication, about American culture...

Tracing genealogies has become immensely popular of late, and numerous companies offer to help you search through historical records or analyze your DNA. The pastime is...

At what point do Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and the 1990 cinematic classic House Party intersect? Many points, actually, according to this incisive comparison of the two done by...

In October 2017, a devastating wildfire destroyed the home of cartoonist Brian Fies along with 6,200 other homes in Northern California. A Fire Story is an...

Sponsored by MIRA Books and HQN, home to women’s fiction and romance series you can fall in love with. Start your #newyearnewreads marathon reading today. These...

Sponsored by The Familiars by Stacey Halls and MIRA Books. Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, noblewoman of one of the finest houses in Lancashire, is pregnant for the...