Books, Arts, and Culture

In my quest to be the ultimate yogi, I’ve been getting more in tune with yoga’s sister science, Ayurveda. Ayurveda is a thousands-of-years-old science that balances...

It’s never too early to be woke. Through board books, even our youngest humans can start to learn how to disrupt racism, sexism, and other injustices....

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web sponsored by Book Marks: A Reading Tracker. “So, you’ve started...

Agrippina the opera may thus appear as a bizarrely comic prequel to a nightmarish era of Roman history, as its producer for the Met, David McVicar,...

Sponsored by Book Marks, A Reading Tracker. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured...

I’m usually not a big rereader, but I recently decided to revisit one of my long-time favorites, The Lord of the Rings. And naturally, being the...

The excellent TV series Baghdad Central—based on Elliott Colla’s novel of the same name—is already available in the UK on Channel 4 and on Starz Play Arabia. It’s coming...

I’m an evangelist for my cause. What I tell anyone within earshot about Black historical romance novels is this: African American history and the romance genre...

At the moment, as the Democrats struggle over their future, one can legitimately wonder whether the poles of the Democratic tent are strong enough to hold....

Black women filmmakers—not invented yesterday and invented by no one but themselves—have persistently been making imaginative work in spite of the many obstacles and restrictions they’ve...