Books, Arts, and Culture

When I started reading Chloe Caldwell’s new book, The Red Zone, a memoir about identity, love, health, and pain, all told through the lens of her...

Omani author Jokha Alharthi’s new novel Bitter Orange Tree, translated by Marilyn Booth, is beautifully sad. The book is narrated by Zuhour, a young Omani woman...

You got chocolate in my peanut butter: How much fun are genre mashups in books? Spoiler: a lot. The historical novel is so great because it...

I spend a lot of time reading, thinking about, and writing about queer books. I make a lot of queer book lists. Over the years, it...

China is the largest publisher of books, magazines, and newspapers in the world by volume. Chinese authors won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 and...

From book lights to book holders to tools that make reading more accessible, all sorts of wonderful solutions exist to improve our reading experience. And we...

There’s a certain peace that comes to me when I read a book, any book, that I really enjoy. I love taking my time to focus...

Believe it or not, it’s time for summer reading again! But what to read??? To paraphrase LFO: “In the summer books come and summer books go,...