What Are Obscenity Laws?: Book Censorship News, March 18, 2022
One of the most comment complaints parents and citizens are lodging against books in public schools and libraries is that the material breaks obscenity laws. This,...
To Club or Not to Club? The Benefits of Reading Alone
While in quarantine, many of us have realized that we need community. It’s human. We crave the company of others. Too much isolation isn’t good for...
Read The Novel? You Should Read The Graphic Novel
Some of my first reading experiences were brought to me by Sport-Billy, the intergalactic human-looking alien who travels across the galaxy to bring fair-play to sports....
Mad As A Mother: Reading To Understand The Maternal Mental Health Crisis
The United States has a maternal mental health crisis. Mental health conditions are the most common complications of pregnancy and birth. Birthing people have a 20%...
Saadat Hasan Manto’s Legacy: On Reading Manto In A Crumbling Nation
Saadat Hasan Manto, born in Ludhiana of British India, in 1912, was a prolific writer and playwright. Hailing from complicated family background, Manto has always had...
Books With a Greek Chorus
Possibly one of the most iconic Greek choruses is the one with the muses in Disney’s Hercules. Although they were never directly involved in the story...
Greta Gerwig Must Answer For Her Crimes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Little Women fan in possession of an opinion about Amy, must be furious about Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation....
8 Heartfelt and Powerful Children’s Books About Negative Emotions
Last month, I dug into the topic of why many children’s books don’t feature negative emotions. Now that I’ve begun learning about this deficit in children’s...
What If?: Books Like Sliding Doors
What if one little thing in your life was different, and it changed everything that came after? That’s the premise of the 1998 film Sliding Doors,...
An In-Depth Guide to Book Sizes
You’re strolling through your local bookstore, perusing the shelves for that hard-to-find book you’ve been searching for, and your aesthetic sensibilities are offended by the dramatically...
