Books, Arts, and Culture

I’ve noticed that some of my readers have taken to posting “trigger warnings” about my novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which deals with...

In my decade-long project to read through Russian literature chronologically (with frequent divagations—I’m motivated but not monomaniacal), this year I reached 1976 and three famous novels...

One of the first things I noticed about Marvel’s smash-hit Disney+ show WandaVision was that Wanda and Vision seemed really into each other. While there are...

For avid readers, sometimes books can lose their appeal. You might get burned out or are unable to find the joy in keeping up with all...

It comes as a shock to most people when I tell them that, the first time I read Lauren Graham’s work of fiction Someday, Someday, Maybe,...

It’s the fall season, and with it comes the promise of snuggling up with a good book while enjoying the gorgeous weather creeping up into the...

Well, here we are. The beginning of Pandemic Winter 2: The Omicron Story, and the 17th annual Millions Year in Reading. We are grateful to our...

We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance to note...