Books, Arts, and Culture

Want to read some of next year’s big titles, but don’t want to wait forever for your turn at the library? I have the cure for...

I cannot imagine that Sergey didn’t warn Oleg. Picture it: you’re in the middle of practically nowhere—a place so desolate that it could double as the...

Started in 2010 by Marya E. Gates, Noirvember celebrates film noir for the month of November. There are countless ways to participate, but my plan for...

Sponsored by Amazon Publishing.  A northwest Iowa library has been inundated with donations from in and outside of the state after a man burned several LGBTQ children’s books...

This giveaway is sponsored by Chooseco, publisher of the Weregirl trilogy. Weregirl: Typhon, the final book in the trilogy, will be out this month. Weregirl: Typhon by...

The post was produced in partnership with Bloom, a literary site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. 1.All-of-a-Kind...

We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance...

Haruki Murakami is a difficult writer to characterize. Broadly, his style falls under magical realism with an occasional absurdist streak. His writing is simple yet dense,...

1. It’s become quite common by now for me to tell people who ask why I am doing a doctorate in biology that I really have...

Author photo of Kathryn Harrison © Joyce Ravid. Editor’s Note: Kathryn Harrison has written the novels Thicker Than Water, Exposure, Poison, The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife, Envy, and Enchantments. Her autobiographical...