Books, Arts, and Culture

The Golden Globe 2019 nominations are out, and they only strengthen my personal belief that books make for good TV and movies. Nineteen (!) of the...

It’s easy to feel defeated these days. It takes more effort and conscious positivity to focus on the future, on the historic firsts. We elected a...

Watching “Our Town” and grappling with inevitable loss Portland Center Stage performs “Our Town.” (Photo by Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv) I was lying in my bunk bed at...

Bauman: In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik committed two mass murders: one targeting the government and contingent civilian population, the other against the inmates of a summer...

Sponsored by TREADMILL: When a buddy mysteriously vanishes from the gym, finding him becomes an obsession in this suspense thriller by bestselling War of the Roses...

The role of literature in a year when every week brought a new atrocity Photo by Christopher Burns This July, I hit a low. A how-do-we-keep-fighting-one-more-day low,...

For our latest installment of Read More Women, the author of “In Our Mad and Furious City” offers prose, poetry, and drama A lot of people write...

You can’t walk two feet without being smacked in the face by something superheroic these days, and as superheroes expand beyond comics into movies and more, more...

The holidays are upon us—I am listening to Mariah Carey as I type—and you’re probably planning your decor. Are you using books? Why not? If you...

Let’s face it: you’re not going to get everything you wanted this holiday season. Sometimes we just have to take matters into our own hands. And...