December 2020

(This essay contains almost immediate spoilers for The Undoing, as well as discussion of birth trauma) At the end of HBO’s prestige drama The Undoing, we...

Under recently announced Supreme Court constitutional ground rules, the government violates the First Amendment when, without a compelling justification, it treats religious behavior better or worse...

If you can’t go out in the real world, why not at least read about it? These memoirs, essay collections, and deeply-researched reported works kept our...

I’ve always been fascinated by the sociological study of generations. As a devout enthusiast of pop culture, I find it interesting to learn how historical events...

With many students and professionals working from home, it feels like the perfect time to take advantage of the flexibility and fly off to a seaside...

In raising my daughters, I have sought to find books with Asian American characters so that they can see themselves in the stories they read. I...

As a high school librarian in South London, UK, I work with students ages 11–19. The ages from 11–15 are the ones who use the library...

What I’m going to do in this A–Z is look at fairytales, folktales, and myths from a different direction (and a couple of different angles): I’m...

I think we can safely say that we are all ready for 2021 and the mental and emotional refresh of a new year. And now you...

Community reading programs have always interested me. I like the idea of people from different backgrounds and experiences coming together to read something together. There is...