Books, Arts, and Culture

by Joshua Whitehead While in Toronto, a reporter, having researched me thoroughly, asked: “So Josh, can you tell me how the death of your grandmother has...

For some reason, I’ve interpreted the umbrella of popular science books to mean speculative books with only a whisper of science in them. A better term,...

I’m a sucker for fairy tale retellings, from Cinderella to LGBTQ and gender-flipped iterations. What can I say? As far as I’m concerned, there are never...

For those of us who love reading both fiction and nonfiction, there’s a certain category of book that combines these loves: nonfiction books about books. While...

While Christmas is not, in actuality, a holiday I specifically celebrate, it is a day of the year that I really enjoy. Even where I live,...

In this new rom-com from Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert, All the Feels), Maria’s one-night-stand — the thick-thighed, sexy Viking of a man she left without a...

My midlife condition is “not enough time to read”—but years begin with such a sense of possibility. I remember this January felt particularly free and expansive,...

We live in an ugly era, full of people trying to build community and others who are attempting to shoot community in the face one round...

My first novel came out this year and it was hard to focus on reading in the months before and after. At the beginning of the...