Books, Arts, and Culture

Last week, I asked you in the Read Harder 2024 Halfway Check-In Survey what you thought was the most difficult task in the Read Harder Challenge...

Click to enlarge and scroll. An excerpt from State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg In Florida, my husband runs. Ten miles a day, seventy...

Here’s the thing about thrillers: the surprise twists force readers to break their previous versions of “reality” and face a whole new version of the story....

Americans are good talkers these days. Prodigious at least. Our screens and links and tabs are filled with it. Talk, talk, talk. Streams of mouthy TikTokers...

I have nothing against grandfathers. In fact I love my own, and it was my recent experience of cutting his toenails that prompted this list. My...

Horror writer Gretchen Felker-Martin’s sophomore novel Cuckoo follows a group of teens in the 1990s who have been abducted and abused in a remote desert camp...

It’s been a blazing hot summer and we firmly believe that best remedy for beating the heat is to escape with a book. Fill up your...

Based loosely on a Grimms’ fairytale, Bear is both enchanting and suspenseful. Sam, a concessions worker on a ferry, is terrified when a bear shows up...

Following His Successful Cruise Ship Essay, David Foster Wallace Rides the Amtrak 79 Carolinian I have now seen tetanus-laden rail yards in seven states and the...