Books, Arts, and Culture

When I was a teenager, my uncle Jesse Ausubel decided to count all the fish in the sea. He’s not crazy. The Census of Marine Life,...

We never learn the name of the protagonist in Anna Metcalfe’s debut novel, Chrysalis, a detail that feels fitting in a book that is in part...

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for new books! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to your TBR. This is...

Pick your favorite period piece films and dramas to get a historical fiction recommendation! Whether your favorite thing about watching movies set in the past are...

I watched 16 of the worst superhero movies for this article. And to really rub salt in the wound, I volunteered. Don’t worry — I didn’t...

I used to read like a machine. I’d pick up a book, finish it, and then immediately start the next book. Rinse and repeat. But my...

It’s the space race, baby! Apple TV’s For All Mankind explores an alternate history in which a Soviet Union crew, not a United States crew, was the...

Hot trends in children’s literature are often up for discussion — are vampires dead? What mythical creature is the Next Big Thing? — but when it...

The first half of “Cocktails at Doney’s” features a very similar set-up to the superior “In Isfahan”: a middle-aged expat British man encounters a beautiful woman...