Books, Arts, and Culture

Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster confronts what it means to be hungry and desperate as a Black artist. The novel is about Edie, a 20-something Black...

Beam A beam shoots out of my little sister’s right eye and won’t stop. It’s because during a meteor shower, the two of us wished on...

In third grade, I had to buy a different leotard than every other girl in my ballet studio. Where theirs were silky, with cute spaghetti straps,...

Beginning in 1990 when I read Seventh Heaven, and for every year since, I anticipate the annual release of a new Alice Hoffman novel as I...

I don’t know if I love Moby-Dick or even really want to read other books like Moby-Dick. It’s long, it’s very masculine, there are long descriptions...

The people have spoken: death is bad. Humanity has spent thousands of years trying to find or invent a magic potion to control the aging process...

Content warning: This article includes books and content that reference sexual abuse and physical assault. South Africa has a painful history of racism connected to the...

One of my favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer moments is from the hilarious season 5 episode “Triangle.” It has one of the best bickering interactions in...

Summertime is synonymous with a seasonal book category known as the “beach read.” Every May, readers are inundated with new releases billed as beach reads: light,...

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,...