Books, Arts, and Culture

Imagine that the charming, audience-addressing protagonist of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s runaway-hit TV show Fleabag was—instead of a jumpsuit-wearing café owner in London—a reclusive lab tech in the...

On August 17, 1952, The New York Times published a review of Kurt Vonnegut’s debut novel, Player Piano. A tale of the near-future United States where...

Do you have or want a child? Then take my advice: read some comic books. I’ve found comic books to be far better parenting guides than...

I quit my job last year to become a writer; it was one of the wildest, most impulsive things I’ve done in my whole life. I...

I’m fat and I’m bookish. Sometimes, this sucks. Sure, there are super-cute bookish pins, and scarves, and socks, but…I want more. I want to wear adorable...

Over the last two years, I have been the accompanying parent on enough hospital visits to warrant a ‘loyalty card’ of some sort. But do you...

I tend to assign creepy short stories to my general education English classes because…well, the sort of uncanny ambiguity that comes with unsure answers often yields...

Language is heavily gendered. It is deftly utilized by patriarchy to oppress women in the form of myths. Myths assign women a gender identity that is...