Books, Arts, and Culture

Welcome to Read this Book, a newsletter where I recommend one book that needs to jump onto your TBR pile! Sometimes these books are brand new...

Every school and public library has different policies and procedures surrounding book challenges, and the processes behind the way a book moves from challenge to banned...

Islands live comfortably in the literary imagination. Cut off from the mainland and often small or negligible in population, they place characters in inescapable situations, amplify...

Katya Apekina, author of critically acclaimed The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, opens her newest novel, Mother Doll, with a nesting set of characters...

Is there anything more comforting than the smell of freshly baked goods and the childlike joy of getting chocolate chip cookies just out of the oven?...