Books, Arts, and Culture

In the fall of 1973, just as the country finished watching the Watergate hearings, my mother enrolled in classes to become a psychologist. Watergate wasn’t why...

In her debut novel, The Applicant, Nazlı Koca takes the reader on Leyla’s identity crisis whirlwind  in Berlin, Germany. Recently failed from her masters thesis and...

When I was roughly 12 years old, I used to spend long summer hours at my family’s business, located in a boring Midwestern strip mall. We...

What is the Bury Your Gays trope? It’s a trope used in media in which a queer person, often in a romantic relationship, tragically dies. The...

Lately I have had a lot of reasons to need cozy fantasy books, especially those written for younger and middle grade readers. In reality land where...

Still reeling from the success of her BookTok boom, Colleen Hoover’s books have been featured on many a recommendations list. But let’s turn the tables here:...

Chinese historical fiction has a long and storied history that spans hundreds of years and multiple eras and governments. In fact, the first known novel to...

Who doesn’t need a few laughs here and there? You bet I do. Nowadays, I’ve been enjoying manga, and manhwa/webtoons, that provide laughter, joy, and happiness...

Elizabeth McKenzie’s latest novel, The Dog of the North, is intoxicating fun. The story follows Penny Rush on her quest for a fresh start, which she kicks off with...