Books, Arts, and Culture

My husband likes to tell a story from when he was eight years old, in Los Angeles, in 1975: His parents dropped him and his seven-year-old...

Winter can be a difficult season, but luckily I know the cure for the winter blues: cozying up with a great book. But with all these...

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to...

The oldest children’s books in print might not be flying off shelves these days, but somehow they’ve endured. Though it’s hard to imagine, children’s books have...

Fantasy is a tricky genre to define, as it frequently overlaps with romance, sci-fi, horror, and more. Fantasy, in some form, has always been part of...

Superheroes have been around a long time, and most of the characters and genre conventions are pretty well established. But did every character always look and...

Emily in Paris landed into our Netflix queues at, arguably, the perfect time. Seven months into the pandemic, we had watched everything we could think of...

Right now, people all over the northern hemisphere are under the winter siege of arctic blasts and polar temps. Snow sweeps through the land, burying homes...

With all the high stakes, dangerous secrets, and complicated conspiracies the genre has to offer, it’s no wonder novels about spies are so popular. Often putting...