Books, Arts, and Culture

I’ve always thought that “complicated relationship” is a bit redundant. Aren’t all relationships, in some sense, complicated? What’s more complicated than weaving two (or more) hearts...

The place where the lost things go isn’t one of the most frequently-occurring story tropes, but it’s certainly one of the more compelling. In the Wizard...

As soon as I finished reading Sabrina Imbler’s gorgeous essay collection How Far the Light Reaches, I knew I’d found a new favorite genre. There’s something...

Molly Ringwald is a veritable icon of the ‘80s, an actress known and beloved for films such as The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen...

I’m back with more great pairings between things to stream (shows and films) and things to read — which is honestly just one of my favorite...

Marvel’s Secret Invasion is dropping on Disney+ on June 21. What we know right now is mostly from the 2019 Captain Marvel movie and the early...

Happy summer! I hope that many of you are enjoying some new books or making a dent in your summer reading challenge. Every summer I write...

Ask Keziah Weir if her fiction draws from her life, and she’ll demur. She likes inventing characters and disappearing into imagined worlds, not writing autofiction. Yet...