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Blackout poetry is for everyone, whether you see yourself as a creative person or you don’t think you have an artistic bone in your body. This...

“Novalis” was the nom de plume of the polymath Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an 18th-century German Romantic poet, novelist, and philosopher. Novalis is also...

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In Javier Fuentes’s touching and tender debut novel, Countries of Origin, the concept of home is complicated and politically fraught. After years of growing up undocumented...

In its origins, the word “fabulous” lacked a positive connotation but simply meant “having to do with fables.” I’m no etymologist, so I don’t know how “fabulous”...

There’ve been some rumblings on book blurbs lately in Book World. Vivienne Woodward explored some overused words in book blurbs, and Esquire got into how broken...

I can imagine few places more appealing than magical libraries. If I were ever whisked away to a fantasy world, the library is certainly the first...

The preteen years are universally known to be brutal. Puberty, middle school, and societal pressure are ramping up while the consistency of young childhood is slipping...

Ali Hazelwood is one of my must-read authors. Ever since I read The Love Hypothesis, I’ve been hooked. Not only does Ali artfully portray empowering women...