2020

The Little Mermaid sacrifices her tail for a human soul. The Navajo Changing Woman grows old and is reborn with the seasons. The nymph Daphne becomes...

Over the years – especially recent ones – there have been many necessary conversations about the importance of increased representation in the U.S. publishing industry. Readers...

According to Dictionary.com, Buddhism is “a religion […] holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering...

Sometimes you know you shouldn’t laugh, but you do it anyway. Sometimes you don’t know you shouldn’t laugh, and are then embarrassed when you do because...

There are a lot of bots. In 2018, a study estimated that bots post around 2/3rds of the links on Twitter. In 2019, a study suggested...

With all acknowledgement of my privilege, I must say that the COVID-related cancellation that hit me the hardest was my town library’s annual book sale. This...

Anxiety is bad enough in the best of times—which these clearly are not—and stress about meeting arbitrary reading goals or not having the energy to crack...

Gothic poems stand for more than darkness! On one hand, the word gothic embodies everything macabre about humanity. Indeed, orators expressing a darker theme stands alongside...

I never realized the importance of Black feminist books and literature until I was an adult. I simply didn’t understand Black feminism until I was much...

So, you’ve read all of the Outlander books and the Lord John spin-offs, you’re caught up on the TV show, and you’re waiting as patiently as...