Books, Arts, and Culture

Judging by how rarely it comes around, Timon of Athens seems destined to remain something of an anomalous outlier in the Shakespearian canon. The production mounted...

The American Library Association announced the winners for the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Awards yesterday, among many other awards. This year marks the first time a...

Sponsored by Never Kiss a Duke by Megan Frampton, published by Avon Books. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so...

Cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom begins her graphic memoir, Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption, with the following dedication: This album is dedicated to all adoptees —living...

For a decade now I’ve written personal essays describing hidden bottles of cheap Chardonnay and the whine of ambulances and how the lip of the bumper...

The film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Tony Harris’s Ex Machina isn’t going to be called Ex Machina. Why? Probably at least in part because its star,...

Start this new year with a carefully curated list of the best UK books out this January. From the sweltering heat of Seoul to the dangerous...

Trigger Warning: Mention of sexual assault In high school and college, Greek epics like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were never among my favorites. This is partly...

I like to read about celebrities. I don’t necessarily need to know a celebrity’s work, either, to be invested in what I’m reading: hearing someone’s life...

Valentine’s Day is coming up and so is the release of P.S. I Still Love You, the sequel to the Netflix original film To All the...