Books, Arts, and Culture

How do you find the best chapter books for kids? At first, encouraging the switch from picture to chapter books can be a challenge. Of course...

In 2014, a friend and I went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The members of the audience were given a survey to fill out...

Sometimes it takes me a long while to read a big author, let alone collect quotes from them. Virginia Woolf was one of those authors. She isn’t...

For more than a decade, we’ve been hearing about how Amazon has been the death of bookstores all across the country. And yet Barnes and Noble...

What do we mean when we talk about gothic literature? How does classic gothic literature compare to southern gothic compare to gothic horror? These are big...

This Riot Recommendation of middle grade books about friendship is sponsored by Best Friends by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham with First Second Books. Bestselling creators of Real...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by The Library Book by Susan Orlean—enter to win!...

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Edwidge Danticat, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley, Caleb Crain, and Rainbow Rowell—that are...

The Great Hack is an important film, one that people need to see, but its account of the Cambridge Analytica operation scarcely touches the shady world...