Books, Arts, and Culture

To call this a season of unbelievable loss doesn’t begin to capture the reality. It’s not just COVID-19. So many luminaries have died in recent months,...

If only I had some really heavy bookends. How many times have you muttered this to yourself after delicately pulling one book off your shelf only...

Racially-motivated violence has sadly become relatively common in the United States. Many wonder what they can do to combat these instances, as well as the pervasive,...

Hey, all you cool cats and kittens! (Sorry.) Now that we’re all still indoors and finished marathoning every episode of Tiger King (including the update) and...

For this month’s independent press round-up, I’m happy to recommend five novels from around the world, including three in translation. These novels span the globe: they...

The first line of Charles Dickens’s 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities is quoted often. Or at least the first part is (it’s a very...

A whole lot of audiobooks fall in the 9–12 hour range, so finding audiobooks under nine hours isn’t as tricky as finding much shorter audiobooks. But...

One of my childhood homes had an aviary attached to it. My family lived in southern California at the time, a place with the perfect weather...

We’re teaming up with Harlequin.com to give away a prize pack which includes the following Robyn Carr titles: Four Friends, The Life She Wants, The Summer That Made...