2020

Roald Dahl holds a special place in my childhood. I still have vivid memories of reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda in school (we...

Short stories are a complex form, one that author and professor Danielle Evans continues to show herself adept in. The ever-shifting opportunities of short fiction are...

Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain. Stuart is the second Scottish winner of the prestigious award,...

Few things have brought me as much comfort during this wild  year as the Great British Baking Show. Sure, I’m late to the game; the show...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve believed that if I can make everything perfect, nothing will ever go wrong. I’ve believed that as long...

We’ve all considered it a time or two—just packing up and moving off into the mountains, or the desert, or somewhere away from people and setting...

Whether you read on late car trips, don’t want to disturb your sleeping partner, or just don’t feel like getting up to turn the light off...

This past weekend, I took a fantastic workshop on using folklore in fiction writing. Part of the workshop was, naturally, a discussion on whether or not...

Full disclosure: I started this post on the best books about hope the day before the U.S. election, so I didn’t entirely know how it would...