Books, Arts, and Culture

First of all, if you’re confused about what a spoonie is, click here to learn more about spoon theory. Now that we’re all on the same...

Have you chosen Ann Patchett’s 2019 novel The Dutch House for your book club? Here are ten The Dutch House book club questions and a reading guide to...

Reading aloud is one of the best ways parents and educators can help children build their literacy skills. Hearing stories aloud can help children learn the...

Find stories that challenge notions about rural America and fulfill task #10 of the Read Harder Challenge! Take a look at the cover for Rural Voices:...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Workman Publishing, publisher of Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love, by Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel. Let’s...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Get Booked: The Handsell. “There are tons of...

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” —Audre Lorde At that unhappy moment when Donald Trump took the oath of office with what has...

Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a...

The Cave and For Sama may also strike a nerve with US audiences because they flatter a penitential strain among many American liberals: the belief that...

Susan Sontag began to read philosophy and criticism as a teenager at North Hollywood High, when she still signed her editorials in the school newspaper as...