Books, Arts, and Culture

The first time I read Diane Cook’s fiction—as a workshop classmate in Columbia’s MFA program—I followed her to the water fountain in Dodge Hall, professed my...

If you told me nine years ago about a Hunger Games prequel, I’d be booking my spot for its midnight release at Borders Books. I first...

When I first started exploring queer literature, I realized that the literary industry has gotten oversaturated with the white narrative. It was debilitating, to say the...

When you look up authors that read their own books, you primarily get a list of celebrities and public figures whose stories are read aloud by...

One of the things I love most about MG and YA literature is the focus on friendship. Often overlooked in favour of a focus on romantic...

We all have certain genres we turn to when we need an escape from everyday life. Recently, I’ve been picking up books that are dark and...

People. Fellow Americans. We have a problem in this country and it’s only getting worse. I’m talking, of course, about politicians. Remember how bad things were...

When I began working in libraries with teens, I found myself tossed into a world I knew nothing about: manga. I hadn’t read any personally, and...

Oh Stephen King film adaptation, that great brass ring of horror films. Many have attempted to reach you for years, and yet they almost always fall...

Daisy and Simon’s marriage isn’t what it seems… After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. They’re a happy little family...