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Books to help you keep perspective when everything is awful Photo by Pim Chu I n the last month of 2018, the third millennium appears to be going...

Even the most confident adult can become paralyzed with terror when it comes to children’s book gift ideas. Whether you’re going to a baby shower, a...

At a time when my 4-year-old daughter is suddenly leaning hard into culturally prescribed gender norms—”I can’t be friends with boys because boys are wild,” she...

I haven’t been heavily involved in any fandoms since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I probably did that fandom wrong—I hated both Spuffy and Bangel, primarily...

Epigraphs are a lovely part of books—usually a fancy line from a very old work that the author feels in their soul. This year was (another)...

You know those celebrity videos by WIRED where they have a cute little poster with questions from Google’s autocomplete? I was curious about what Google wanted...

Three years ago, I joined a book club. Little did I know what this book club experience would teach me in the long run. After endless...

Today is the winter solstice, which means it’s the darkest day of the year. If you are like me, your reaction to this will be to...

In 2013, I was still fairly new to book reviewing. When I requested Alice Walker’s book, The Cushion in the Road, for review, I expected to...