Books, Arts, and Culture

Resolve to put all these anticipated books on your reading list I started compiling this list of anticipated books a couple of years ago, when I was...

No, YOU’RE a firework. We’ll be spending the day nursing our hangovers revising our bookish resolutions. Happy 2019 and have a wonderful New Year’s Day! via...

We’re all aware of the big fish of the literary world who died in 2018—Ursula K. Le Guin, V.S. Naipul, Philip Roth, Anthony Bourdain, Tom Wolfe,...

“The Invention of Clouds,” a short story by Becky Mandelbaum Welcome to Recommended Reading’s Monday Commuter, our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narrative. Photo...

The literary works that foreshadowed the biggest headlines of the year Sometime in the future, I imagine our descendants might gather on their charging pods on a...

Every year I set a goal to read 52 books. There are 52 weeks in a year and if I can read a book a week...

Poets really outdid themselves this year. Poetry has always been political but this year, writers really had us by the throats. They were unabashedly angry, hopeful,...

Every fall and winter, I get this strong urge to binge watch Gilmore Girls. Partly because for me, the best Gilmore Girls episodes were the ones...

When we think of pop-up books, we tend to think of books intended for small children. They are often quite colorful and filled with animals and...

It’s winter here in the Northeast U.S. At the time of this writing, I’m about two weeks into the cold, dark season and staring down at...