Books, Arts, and Culture

Proving we should have more overlap between trade and academic publishing Photo by Colin O n November 23, 2018, the U.S. government released the Fourth National Climate...

Mexican-American novelist Sandra Cisneros was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, judged by a panel that consisted of authors Alexander Chee, Edwidge Danticat, and...

Sponsored by How Long ‘Til Black Future Month – the “Dazzling” (NYT) first collection of short stories from three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin. These...

We’re so excited about this middle grade debut from Pride and American Street author Ibi Zoboi! Take a look at the cover by artist Frank Morrison...

Reading Proust Is Like Climbing a Mountain — Prepare Accordingly Take on an intimidating book like you would take on an immense physical challenge: in small parts, with...

Novels you could be laughing at instead of staring at your TV You know that feeling, when you’ve spent three…four…five hours on the couch, an empty bowl...

My brother took me to see Into the Spider-Verse the Sunday before Christmas in 2018. We had wanted to see it for a while, and I was excited....

In a 2010 episode of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope—a poetic and noble land-mermaid—gave us Galentine’s Day. It’s an unofficial holiday that takes place on February...

Searching for your next great read is an ever elusive task. Amazon and Goodreads use their algorithms to offer books published at the same time and...

If you hang out in superhero-adjacent internet spaces, you probably already know that 2019 marks Batman’s 80th anniversary, and that DC is pulling out all the...