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Sponsored by Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard, now in paperback from Algonquin Books. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon,...

When the Oscar nominations were announced, Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story”—a naturalistic and at times excruciating portrait of a collapsing relationship—was one of the most honored films,...

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First off, mad props to the OG comic book fans (all non-Muslim) who educated me on the Muslim superheroes that already exist. It was fun to...

Just like the book world, stage musicals have their own trends. Over the last few years, musicals based on favorite films from the ’90s and ’00s...

I always used to say SFF (sci-fi and fantasy) wasn’t really my thing. I went through a brief flirtation with Douglas Adams in middle school (didn’t...

It wasn’t until after Anthony Bourdain died by suicide that I began to experience his work. My husband and I spent every night watching episodes of...

“What if I punched that person in the face yesterday and I’m just blocking the memory out?” This is the kind of thought I regularly have,...

Complete this lyric, “Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high, take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading ________.” If you were...

The idea of “proving” your queerness is inherently toxic. By having protagonists or side characters be queer without needing to kiss another character or otherwise prove...