How Much Do Most Anticipated and Best-Of Lists Overlap?
Every year, I devour most anticipated book lists from publications like Lit Hub, TIME, Vogue, Book Page, Buzzfeed, and more. I can’t get enough of them....
Why Difficult Books Matter: How One Line from a Book I Read as a Child Helped Me Heal
There’s a lot of discussion in our year of the Lord 2022 about what books are “appropriate” for children to read and which can be potentially...
The Best Books You’ve Never Heard of (Spring 2022)
Are you always trying to keep up with the latest buzzy books and new releases? There’s an undeniable draw to reading what everyone’s talking about, but...
Unalive, Le$bean, and More: It’s Not Newspeak, It’s Algospeak
People on all sides of the political spectrum have been calling 1984 prophetic since almost the moment it was published. It’s been interpreted to fit any...
The Best Comics of All Time
The best comics of all time. What a tall order. Comic books first emerged in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1930s, and have...
My Favorite Books About Female Friendships
In the isolation of the past two years, I’ve come to realize something: My female friendships truly are a lifeline. And yet I’ve spent the past...
9 Books to Read After JUST MERCY
Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy was a big hit that resonated with readers, as it put a spotlight on our unjust criminal system through his work with...
16 of the Best Children’s Books About Friendship
Friendships are the first relationships we choose for ourselves and often the first ones that we have to work out for ourselves (unlike family relationships, where...
Flower Face Covers in YA
For fans of Anna and the French Kiss and Loveboat Taipei, this effervescent debut takes readers on a journey to the place where trends are born—Seoul,...
Ovid’s Exilic Imagination
In the title essay of his book Reflections on Exile, the late Palestinian-American scholar and critic Edward Said describes the terrible costs of banishment. “True exile,”...
