Books, Arts, and Culture

How being actor and documentarian helped Rabeah Ghaffari write her debut novel “To Keep the Sun Alive” Rabeah Ghaffari has had an exceptional career. She’s an actor,...

In a courtroom in Zharkent, Kazakhstan, in July 2018, a former kindergarten principal named Sayragul Sauytbay calmly described what Chinese officials continue to deny: a vast...

2016–2018 made a lot of us feel like we were in the wrong timeline, but parallel universe books have been popular for many years. Whether the...

Who needs heroes? These past couple of years the rise of antiheroines in YA fiction has become bigger…and better. Sometimes our heroes in YA SFF are...

If you read romance, you know how it goes: words get new sexual meanings, because EUPHEMISMS ARE FUN! And then the word is ruined in your...

This past year, I became an aunt to my brother and sister-in-law’s dog, Remi. As the mother to two kitties, I’d always counted myself a cat...

I fell in love with Harrison Scott Key’s Congratulations, Who Are You Again?—a memoir about pinpointing and then achieving your dreams—within just six pages of starting it. I...

One of my favorite things about reading old comics is seeing echoes of past cultural contexts in stories about people in Day-Glo tights punching each other...

Novels for kids have gotten a lot more interesting than when I was a kid (the ’80–’90s). I was a misfit, tomboyish and struggling beneath the...

When I was 10 years old, I told my parents I wanted to be a vegetarian. They responded by telling me that was all well and...