August 2020

When I was a teen, I loved Meg Cabot’s YA novels because her early YA often dealt with real teens going through pretty unlikely (but still...

Whether you’re new to the wonderful world of plant parenthood or a seasoned expert, there’s always something more you can learn about the seemingly never-ending plant...

Carmilla is a lesbian vampire story that predates Dracula by decades. It’s a story I’ve come back to over and over, in the same conflicted way...

With the dumpster fire that is 2020, I have been unapologetically escapist in my reading. Reading new fantasy books has been my top choice, and with...

Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest...

Have you started this year’s Read Harder challenge? Once again, Read Harder 2020 has 24 tasks designed to help you break out of your reading bubble...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Switch by Beth O’Leary. “‘The first...

In fiction, film, and real life, it has become comforting and convenient for us to stereotype the suburbs. Suburbia, so it goes, is a façade; a...