Books, Arts, and Culture

Step right up, theydies and gentlethems, to the animation and comics battle of the century. It’s going to be one for the ages tonight as we...

The summer of 2019 was something of a bumper season for awesome YA books. We had Margaret Owens’s The Merciful Crow, Emily Lloyd-Jones’s The Bone Houses, and many...

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is a popular choice for book clubs. The 2017 novel was a true publishing phenomenon in the author’s...

Black joy is a form of resistance. There is so much joy in being Black and this joy should be celebrated. Human beings are complex, multifaceted...

Presented coolly enough as a reassessment of the influence Mexican artists had on North American art, I could not greet “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American...

With the hopefulness and optimism of pre-pandemic summers, I composed a summer reading booklist. Historical fiction mixed with some pastoral magic realism would be a great...

Like nice white librarians, the title probably made you bristle. Knowing the swift and harsh criticism leveraged from nice white librarians when urged to read more...

Read the thriller Lee Child calls “sensationally good.” Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland is a searing,...

Adrian Tomine was a teenager when his self-published comic Optic Nerve first received attention, and in the years since he’s carved out a career as an...