Books, Arts, and Culture

Since last year, students at the Saifee School in Rajasthan have been using new textbooks published by the government, which is run by the Hindu nationalist...

The Costa Book Awards announced their 2018 shortlist. The award, which honors works by UK- and Ireland-based authors, is given in five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography,...

The beloved fourth incarnation of the Doctor, Tom Baker, will publish a Time Lord adventure next year entitled Scratchman. A novelization of a shelved Doctor Who movie script, Scratchman is co-written...

The author of ‘Your Duck is My Duck,’ on her creative process and the piece of writing advice no one wants to hear Author photo by John...

“The Ghost of the Leg,” a story by William Fatzinger Jr. Welcome to Recommended Reading’s Monday Commuter, our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narrative....

Liberalism is in crisis, we’re told, assailed on left and right by rising populists and authoritarians. The center cannot hold, they say. But if liberal democracy...

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Why attitudes about the internet make “The End of the End of the Earth” fail—and Olivia Laing’s “Crudo” succeed Photo by Jason Blackeye I used to think Jonathan...

Stan Lee, the dearly departed co-creator of more great superheroes than you can count on your fingers, cameoed in virtually every single Marvel movie, from the...

Picking just the right Christmas gift for someone  is never easy, and for bookish loved ones it’s twice as hard! You can always turn to the...