Books, Arts, and Culture

The last few decades have brought a resurgence of interest in the history of eugenics in America, including not only The Nazi Connection but also Alexandra...

LGBTQ rights have suffered some recent setbacks in the U.S., but from a legal perspective, at least, it’s still one of the best times in recent...

Within the first week it was published, Bassey Ikpi’s essay collection I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, a collection of personal essays illuminating and encapsulating...

For the last hundred years, books, films, folk songs, and plays have used the U.S. Labor movement as an inexhaustible source for some of their best...

You aren’t supposed to make money off fan fiction. And technically, of course, nobody does. But many authors who’ve published fan fiction works as original stories...

In May 2019, novelist Ruqaya Izzidien launched the website Muslim Impossible. The new site reviews fictional Muslim and Arab characters in film, TV, and literature. But...

Because 2019 marks 200 years of celebrating the life of Walt Whitman, there has been no shortage of Whitmanian events and exhibits. The Walt Whitman Birthplace will...

Last month I posted about a sponsored read I was doing in memory of my brother. The plan was simple, to read five YA novels in...

How are we only a few months away from the end of 2019? It seems like we were putting together our reading resolutions just yesterday! In...