Books, Arts, and Culture

Rae DelBianco, author of ‘Rough Animals,’ on the women who subvert the toxic tropes of the Western Photo courtesy of Rae DelBianco I spent my teenage years...

“The House Guest,” a story by Beau Golwitzer Welcome to Recommended Reading’s Monday Commuter, our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narrative. Photo by Monica...

I started 2018 hugely pregnant, so looking back, I suppose it’s no surprise that I spent a lot of time dwelling in writing about bodies. The first...

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What happened when I went searching for magic underwater Photo by Angels Vicente Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our...

To celebrate the Review’s fifty-fifth anniversary in 2018, we have been going back into our archives year by year. In this week’s newsletter: John Leonard on...

Someone please help. I’ve fallen in love with so many Harry Potter blankets online. I recently moved from someplace where I rarely used a blanket back...

(Trigger warning: this article, and the book it describes, contain graphic descriptions of suicide.) Jeffrey Eugenides is a brilliant, versatile author, and his novel Middlesex is...

Between new films The Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots, along with Alan Cumming’s appearance as James I on Doctor Who, Britain’s Stuart dynasty are all over contemporary pop culture. Less well-known...

I’m trying to get my life together this year. One way I’m doing that is to tackle my ever-growing to-do list. But I’m not just trying...