How Do You Exist In a World that Sees You As Monster or Ghost?
In his debut collection The Gleaming of the Blade, Christian J. Collier resurrects a history that was never truly buried for the Black men whose lives...
7 Novels Set in the Literary World
At the risk of seeming obnoxiously obsessed with ourselves, writers and readers do tend to love books about writers and readers—especially when those fictional writers and...
How Trump Sabotaged Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin, now a rogue leader and a singular menace to international security, sees Ukraine as having fallen under malign sway of the West...
Why Didn’t The New York State Education Department Defend Its State Librarian?: This Week’s Book Censorship News, March 11, 2022
In celebration of Read Across America Day, schools and libraries championed favorite books in a giant celebration of all things reading. Among the participants on social...
A Review of Filthy Figments: An Erotic Comics Website
For as long as people have been making comics, people have been making erotic comics. Luckily for us, we live in the blessed age of the...
Quiz: What Fictional Character Are You?
What fictional character are you? Have you ever wondered? If so — or if you are just bored and want to take a fun quiz —...
Julius Caesar in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Quick! Name a historical figure from 2,000 years ago whose likeness also appears on a pizza box. Julius Caesar. The answer is Julius Caesar. March 15,...
Horror Where the Supernatural Takes a Back Seat
After reading an advance copy of Claire Kohda’s Woman, Eating back in October (don’t worry; it’s finally out next month), I did what I usually do...
Bookish Newsletters Are a Throwback to Book Blogging And I Am Here for It
It was somewhere around 2006 when I first learned what blogging was, and it didn’t take long for me to set up my very own, learning...
Why I Used to Be Scared of Poetry (But Can’t Get Enough of It Now)
Poetry. When I was really young (I’m talking grammar school age) I loved the stuff. Silly poems about dudes in bathtubs, nursery rhymes, that ridiculous “red...
