A Resonant Centenary for Strauss at the Vienna State Opera
In Die Frau ohne Schatten, the conductor Thielemann finds a work fundamentally consonant with his conservative values—both in the late Romantic tonalities of Strauss’s music and in...
In Die Frau ohne Schatten, the conductor Thielemann finds a work fundamentally consonant with his conservative values—both in the late Romantic tonalities of Strauss’s music and in...
Two weeks before the Stonewall Riots, the first major young adult book to explicitly feature homosexuality hit the shelves. At the time, a book for teens...
In our monthly series Can Writing Be Taught? we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This time,...
The following essay is adapted from C.E. Gatchalian’s memoir Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man. It was one noon hour...
This year at BookCon, DC announced another batch of titles for their YA imprint, DC Ink. The new books look gorgeous, and I’m super excited by...
Since my father died in March, I have been dreading Father’s Day. Not the holiday itself, which has been, for me, about my husband for the...
Reading friends, you might consider it blasphemy to cut up the pages of your old books, and I get it. But what if there were a...
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, now streaming on Netflix, is a brutal and illuminating look at the harsh reality that many black Americans face when dealing...
Award-winning SFF author Fonda Lee recently tweeted about a ‘linguistic dilemma’ many fantasy writers face when the setting of their novel takes place in a secondary...
As a literary nerd and eventual English major, I spent a lot—and I mean a lot—of time in high school and college studying Shakespeare. His collections of...