Books, Arts, and Culture

Earlier this year, I read several great books on migration, borders, and identity-making in the United States: Valeria Luiselli’s powerful and riveting Tell Me How It...

I’m a painfully slow reader, and as such, my end of year reading lists are never impressively long. Still, I keep them. They do photos one...

Here are four notable books of poetry publishing in December. Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins Before the core of this book—a sequence that considers...

The Golden Globe 2019 nominations are out, and they only strengthen my personal belief that books make for good TV and movies. Nineteen (!) of the...

It’s easy to feel defeated these days. It takes more effort and conscious positivity to focus on the future, on the historic firsts. We elected a...

Watching “Our Town” and grappling with inevitable loss Portland Center Stage performs “Our Town.” (Photo by Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv) I was lying in my bunk bed at...

Bauman: In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik committed two mass murders: one targeting the government and contingent civilian population, the other against the inmates of a summer...

Sponsored by TREADMILL: When a buddy mysteriously vanishes from the gym, finding him becomes an obsession in this suspense thriller by bestselling War of the Roses...

The role of literature in a year when every week brought a new atrocity Photo by Christopher Burns This July, I hit a low. A how-do-we-keep-fighting-one-more-day low,...

For our latest installment of Read More Women, the author of “In Our Mad and Furious City” offers prose, poetry, and drama A lot of people write...