6 Environmental Comics to Celebrate Earth Day
Since we are nearing Earth Day (April 22), I thought it would be fun to explore some comic books that explore the environment, sustainability, and/or climate...
32 Badass Avengers Shirts to Prepare You for Endgame
We’ve all screamed ourselves hoarse by now about Avengers: Endgame, which is set for its U.S. release on April 26. It’s the culmination of over a decade...
21 Children’s Books about Colors That Get the Green Light
“What is your favorite color?” is a big conversation starter among my 14 preschool students. Most answer with a simple blue, pink, or orange, while at...
9 Free Books to Celebrate World Book Day
Happy World Book Day! Well, officially it’s April 23, but for me and probably you, every day is World Book Day, amirite? Amazon is celebrating with...
40 of the Most Popular Translated Books on Goodreads: List List 345
This edition of List List is sponsored by Henry Holt, publisher of TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi. Available now wherever books are sold. The new novel by Pulitzer...
Long-Lost Franz Kafka Works Could Emerge After Messy Legal Battle: Critical Linking, April 19, 2019
A long-hidden trove of unpublished works by Franz Kafka could soon be revealed following a decade-long battle over his literary estate that has drawn comparisons to...
The Slow Bloom of ‘Suite for Barbara Loden’
This post was produced in partnership with Bloom, a literary site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. 1. When...
A Specter Is Haunting Xi’s China: ‘Mr. Democracy’
Enter Xu Zhangrun. A fifty-six-year-old professor of constitutional law at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, Xu is well known in Beijing as a moderate and prolific critic...
20 Years After Columbine, America Is Still Letting Its Kids Die
O n April 20, 1999, a failed bombing planned by two high school seniors at Columbine High School and turned into a shooting with assault rifles...
The Fire in Fiction
When tragedy hits, what do we read? In the wake of the Notre Dame fire in Paris, at least, the answer is 19th-century fiction: Victor Hugo’s...
