Books, Arts, and Culture

I didn’t read much during the first half of the year. Trying to finish up my own novel left me so exhausted, and at one point,...

Marvel has just dropped the first, much-anticipated trailer for Avengers 4 today, and it’s grim and eyeball-grabby, just as expected. The movie will be called Avengers:...

Make your commute more literary with our roundup of podcasts that recognize and celebrate diversity I f you have a long daily commute to work, or...

What to get—and more importantly, what NOT to get—for the reader in your life this holiday season The most addictive and perplexing content of the holiday season...

This year I grabbed a lot of books almost totally at random and finished most of them, some in a few hours (hello, Jean Rhys’s gorgeously...

One way of seeing, in Wittgenstein’s formulation, is what we might call accurate seeing. This is how the blind man sees after Jesus touches his eyes...

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Finding lessons in some of literature’s most indelible nomenclature Image by Reedsy Harry Potter. Sherlock Holmes. Willy Wonka. The best character names will worm their way into...

The countdown to the final season of Game of Thrones has officially begun. The first official teaser for the eighth and final season of the hit...

Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Misérables has been famously adapted as a musical, but it’s also been on screen quiiiiiite a few times. If you search...