Books, Arts, and Culture

Back in 2014, I served on a committee tasked with developing a list of up to 125 titles of outstanding books for the college bound. Since...

I love a good MOOC. Who doesn’t? It’s a hideous acronym (Massive Open Online Course), but basically they are cool courses run by cool people about...

Have you finished watching Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix yet? It is SOOOOOOO good!! In case you didn’t know, the series is loosely based on...

Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is a beloved classic work of horror. While the new Netflix show isn’t a straight adaptation of the novel,...

This giveaway is sponsored by Literary Chickens, an arresting collection of chicken portraits paired with quotations from classic literature. Best-selling photographer Beth Moon’s intimate portraits capture a...

Sponsored by Park Row Books and EVERGREEN TIDINGS FROM THE BAUMGARTNERS by Gretchen Anthony. In her trademark ultra-chill style, she rants about interracial dating, the whiteness...

Reading Paul Monette’s AIDS memoir helped me figure out how to move forward after my boyfriend’s death Photo by Scott Rodgerson Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s...

Jeff Jackson, the author of ‘Destroy All Monsters,’ on writing a rock novel with an A side and a B side Photo by Rocco Dipoppa on Unsplash I...

“But let us cultivate our garden.” —Candide by Voltaire (1759), translated by Theo Cuffe (2009) 1.The first real garden I grew on my own was in...

Over and over we’ve gotten scientific wake-up calls, and over and over we’ve hit the snooze button. If we keep doing that, climate change will no...