The author on using fiction to start a dialogue about slavery in Ghana Ayesha Harruna Attah’s great-great grandmother is the force behind The Hundred Wells of Salaga,...
Starfiiiiish…Innn…Spaaaaace… Sounds ridiculous right? Then again, at baseline, what supervillain doesn’t? The nightmare lunacy is what makes them terrifying. The fact they couldn’t really exist but…but...
I am obsessed with inter-generational novels. I am obsessed with novels about women who navigate the world in their shells, until they know themselves enough and...
The year 2019 is bringing us some amazing essay collections. I’ve been keeping a list of the most exciting ones I’ve come across, and the number...
Over the last seven years I have attempted to read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita on three separate occasions. Twice I aborted the mission before getting very far....
We are entering a golden year of queer lit, especially YA. There is so much coming out in 2019! So many titles, in fact, that it...
The worrying new screen time study published in JAMA Pediatrics made all kinds of feelings knot up in me. It found that “when used in excess, screen time...
Setting is something I care deeply about when it comes to reading. I love being transported somewhere, whether it’s a place I know intimately or a...
Sometimes being a book lover is a costly business, and however much you may want to support a creator, you simply don’t have the financial ability...
Okay, we’re only a month into the new year, so maybe I’m being a little too pessimistic. But I’m fairly certain that I won’t be able...
