Bookish Hills Upon Which I am Prepared To Perish
I love writing these kinds of posts. I come from a family of shit-starters and pot-stirrers, and we love nothing more than to get in dramatic...
8 of the Best Horror Books To Creep You Out This Fall
As summer winds down and the first bits of fall set in soon, I cannot stop thinking about October. That month, besides it being my birthday...
The Golden Library of the Moscow Tsars That No One Can Find
The promise of a lost library brings to mind hushed voices in dark corners, a shiver on the skin — and a potentially glorious treasure hunt...
8 High-Tech Mysteries for When Social Media Turns Deadly
When I think of murder mysteries, I think of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers. I think big mansion houses or small towns that seem beautiful...
8 Remarkable Black Lesbian Fiction Books To Add To Your TBR
Black lesbian fiction was a result of the feminist movement of the 1960s and ’70s. Black authors and activists were highly dissatisfied with how Black women...
How I’m Trying (And Failing) to Rebuild a Reading Habit Destroyed by Trauma
Two and a half years ago, I came down with what I thought was a normal cold or flu. I handled it the way I always...
An Ode to the Author’s Note
Rita Williams-Garcia’s A Sitting in St. James is one of the best and most important books of 2021, and it goes against all she’d promised herself...
QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Jack Kirby’s Creations?
Jack Kirby is to American comic books as Stephen Sondheim is to musicals: he didn’t invent them, but they would be unrecognizable without his influence. If...
Pentagon Orders US Airlines Provide 18 Planes to Help With Afghan Evacuation
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered 18 aircraft from U.S. airlines be delivered to the Department of Defense to help with the effort to...
Through the Human Lens: The Millions Interviews Meghan O’Gieblyn
While it is an admittedly high bar, I’m most drawn to nonfiction books where I feel surrounded by the writer’s manner of thought; I am not...
