Books, Arts, and Culture

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Something new is happening on the European right, and it involves more than xenophobic populist outbursts. Ideas are being developed, and transnational networks for disseminating them...

The voting is done, and Goodreads has announced the winners of their 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. If you’re not familiar (and didn’t get to vote!), Goodreads...

We are not worthy The first full-length trailer for Captain Marvel is here, and IT. IS. AWESOME. Krees? Skrulls? Freaking awesome powers? CHECK! Not to mention...

Women in pop culture this year are doing violence, rather than having violence done to them Photo by Richard van Hemmen This was the year of the dead...

Heidi Sopinka, author of ‘The Dictionary of Animal Languages,’ recommends reifungsromans Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash Meaningful roles dry up in Hollywood for women over 30,...

Here it be: the List. Our favorite comics of the year. They may not be yours. The lovely thing about comics is that there are millions...

Editor’s Note: Trigger warning—this interview includes discussions of assault (peer abuse and bullying of children) and hate speech in describing lived experiences. Few indie writers get...

I love quotes. I collect them and turn to them often. They are beautiful little collections of words with some sort of wisdom tucked in. I’ve...

*This list was originally published on The Kids Are All Right newsletter on December 2, 2018. Follow this link to subscribe to the newsletter for weekly children’s book...