Books, Arts, and Culture

At Lapham’s Quarterly, Sheila Liming browses the bookshelves at Edith Wharton’s estate in Lenox, Mass., where Wharton owned books by H.G. Wells, James Joyce, George Sand,...

When you first set out to become a freelance writer, you charge whatever you think is “normal.” In the process of determining that rate, you consider...

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Set in a small town in an abstracted American South, Catherine Lacey’s Pew traces a week in the life of its eponymous narrator, shortly after they...

Landscape with Self-Actualization after Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Let’s start with the horse: sometimes,especially when working, I’m the horse,as well as the ploughman...

“I am an instinctive mother…” As I read these words in Louise Erdrich’s memoir, The Blue Jay’s Dance, a veil was lifted off my eyes. Just...

As a climate activist, I know that racial and social justice are intrinsically linked with environmentalism. You cannot fight climate change without fighting for social change....

So, you’ve burned through every episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra on Netflix and now you don’t know what to do with yourself. You want...

It is a truth universally acknowledged: to read, one must have light. And let’s face it, most of us just don’t have reading lights. Or the...

Reading apps can encourage kids to do more reading. Many are focused on phonics, but reading comprehension apps especially can help children practice important foundational skills....