Books, Arts, and Culture

Jami Nakamura Lin begins with a warning: “In the presence of a story—if the story is a good one—time collapses.” This is precisely what she achieves...

Narrowing down this week’s list was hard. November really came out the gate swinging. Phew. The featured list below leans towards fiction, but there are a...

Crime fiction has always been one of the most popular genres of fiction. The attraction of a book that has you holding your breath as you...

The beloved franchise One Piece has over 1,000 TV show episodes. The series, featuring Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate friends, premiered in 1999, and it’s...

I am very, very good at reading books. I am very, very bad at reading anything that isn’t a book. Forward me an article you think...

When I was teaching, I was fortunate enough to have a classroom library. Between donations, school funds, and my own buying, it was full of high-interest...

Deepavali, popularly known as Diwali, is the festival of lights. It gets its name from the rows (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that are lit during...

There’s just something inherently queer about mermaids, isn’t there? Hans Christian Anderson’s original tale certainly set a precedent, but the fact that so many mermaid stories...