Books, Arts, and Culture

Future historians may single out 2021 as the year the tide turned for the Palestinian struggle—though it was hard to see coming. The final months of...

It’s easy to feel despair when you stare at terrible news headlines all day long. It can be overwhelming. But of course, negative headlines are much...

On October 25, Texas Republican State Representative Matt Krause sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency asking if any of the schools in the state...

Holiday season is right around the corner! It’s the perfect time to sit back, eat as much warm and comforting food as you want, and read...

For as long as I have had books, I have been battling against messy shelves. This was not helped by the fact that I never had...

Rural places are often maligned and dismissed as backwater, conservative, and discriminatory places. That’s not really new, although it is a boring stereotype that misses a...

I love being cozy and I am a big believer in owning comfy clothes that make you happy, as opposed to wearing whatever old T-shirt and...

What do Rita Dove, W.S. Merwin, and Louise Glück have in common? Other than being renowned American poets, all three were U.S. Poet Laureates at some...

November is a complicated time in elementary schools.  Where I work, the first quarter of the year is wrapping up, conferences are happening, and the trepidation...