Books, Arts, and Culture

The Boondocks comic strip was my first introduction to the concept of anime that centers Black and other characters of color. The art reminded me of...

I am the kind of reader who has a deep passion for my books. I have spent hours reorganizing my personal library and looking online to...

Okay, of course adults can read (or reread) the Harry Potter series. Arbitrarily categorizing which books belong to “kid lit” and which belong to the realm...

In her dramatic follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Wicked Saints, the first book in her Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. Duncan paints...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by our Debbie Macomber prize pack giveaway! “The Library...

In her now-classic feminist manifesto The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir talks about “the myth of woman”: “If the definition provided for this concept is contradicted...

By the time the eight-week course was over, I was the wretch I am now: an unhinged woman vehemently obsessed with oil painting who wrestles with...