Books, Arts, and Culture

Chana Porter’s new speculative novel The Thick and the Lean applies American sexual taboos to food and hunger, and gives the results some chilling terminology: Food...

As July wraps up, we have been blessed with Obama’s summer reading list, and a great selection of new book releases this week. There’s a historical...

As a writer, I feel constant pressure to keep improving however I can. Most of the time, this means reading craft books and setting high standards...

So you’re planning to buy a Kindle or giving Amazon’s website/the Kindle app a whirl. I know how it feels. It can be overwhelming to get...

Sometimes, post-apocalyptic stories imagine humanity scattered through outer space or fighting off rampant wildlife in an overgrown version of Earth. Sometimes they go for super-urbanized versions...

Pound cake is one of the most classic, well-known desserts of all time. It’s easy, too. The most basic recipe is a pound each of butter,...

When I was younger, I watched a movie called The Opposite of Sex. I don’t remember a lot about it, but one quote from has stayed...

Tarzan ain’t the only one swinging from vines and wearing skimpy furs. In the Golden Age of Comics (the 1940s, mostly, with bits of the ’30s...