Books, Arts, and Culture

A neighbor once told me that a woman died in my house. From then I was constantly looking in my house for signs—every creak was a...

When book banning started to heat up two years ago, many wondered how long until a library worker would be seriously hurt over defending the right...

Analog horror books are a riff off of the ever-popular found footage sub-genre of horror that came to popularity in the late 2000s notably on YouTube....

If you spend a good amount of time in manga circles, you may have heard the term dōjinshi before. And you may have certain assumptions about...

If you’ve been on the bookish side of the internet for long enough, you’ve most likely come across the sub-genre Dark Academia. Popular as both a literary sub-genre...

Are you ready to add a whole lot of excellent nonfiction to your spring TBR? I hope so, because there is so much of it coming...

Happy April, bookish friends! April may bring showers and cold blustery days, but it is also bringing us some amazing new YA releases that are making...

Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across...

The 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award winner has been announced. Out of 512 American novels and short story collections published in the U.S. in 2022, Yiyun Li’s book,...