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Like any devoted armchair sleuth, I love a good mystery novel that will have me combing back through its chapters for missed clues. Weighing witness credibility,...

It’s not very often that your own past cultural context becomes a topic of debate on national radio, but the recent television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s...

LAMBDA Award-winning author Alex Sanchez and New York Times bestselling illustrator Julie Maroh break new ground in LGBTQ Young Adult literature with this coming-out romance set...

We’re giving away a Summer Reading Pack courtesy of Harlequin.com. The prize pack which includes the following titles: Sunrise on Half Moon Bay by Robyn Carr,...

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web sponsored by Amazon Publishing. “The poem calls out the privileges...

Amidst the weeks of worldwide protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, we’ve been reflecting on the fiction from recent years...

Joe Biden, by most accounts, has been a different man since the pandemic hit. Last year, he sometimes spoke of his presidency as a return to...

Imagine volunteering for a challenge study, in which researchers give healthy subjects a prospective vaccine and then infect them with the coronavirus, and the very worst...

Six months after death, my mother has come to haunt me. Ever the opportunist, she finds the virus lockdown a handy time to slide into the...