Books, Arts, and Culture

As the temperature soars and summer cruises in high gear, mushrooms dot the landscape. And, my reading friends, I must admit that my heart skips a...

Despite the fact that the majority of us have been leaning on the arts during this unprecedented time as an unparalleled method of distraction and motivation,...

Paris’s Shakespeare and Company is one of the best-known bookstores in the world, with a long and storied past. In November 2019, the historic bookstore turned...

One of the things that I love about science fiction is its myriad sub-genres. Alien invasion, cyberpunk, alternate history, post-apocalyptic, afro-futurism, time travel, space opera, LGBTQ,...

Body Horror is a sub-genre of horror that specializes in the graphic (often really graphic) depiction of the destruction or transformation of the human body, and...

So fun story: when I was a kid, my mom used to tell me that if you fell asleep listening to music or the radio, it...

Only in the last few years have I really found joy, catharsis, and peace in memoir. In some ways, I might owe my new love of...

A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. For fans of Flight Behavior and Station Eleven, a novel set on the brink of catastrophe,...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Switch by Beth O’Leary. “In addition,...

Dave Chisholm’s graphic biography, Chasin’ the Bird: Charlie Parker in California, is a superbly crafted and imaginative record of a legendary two-year period beginning in 1945...