A-Z Queer YA Recommendations for Pride
It’s finally June and that means Pride month, one of the most joyous months of the year! While there is a lot of big scary stuff...
Tok Dirty to Me: The Best of #SmutTok
“TikTok recommends the same 20 books!” This statement is, on one hand, demonstrably false. I’ve learned about tons of new-to-me books through TikTok, both by searching...
8 Recently Published Political Graphic Nonfiction and Memoirs
Reading Art Spieglman’s Maus was a revelation. While I had read many novels and memoirs of the Holocaust, his book made the horrors even more tangible....
What Mystery Novels Get Wrong about the Courtroom
There’s nothing quite as dramatic as a courtroom scene, whether it’s in a book, onstage, or on-screen. Someone is literally on trial; their life (or at...
11 Fantastical Beauty and the Beast Retellings
It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve first printing of it in 1740 — and one fairy...
The creative and transformational possibilities of AI
James Manyika spoke at the Cannes Lions Festival about AI and creativity. Read excerpts from his remarks. Source : The creative and transformational possibilities of AI
To a Happier Year: On E.M. Forster and ‘Maurice’
Recently, my partner and I and a few friends gathered with somewhat ridiculous ceremony for a meeting of our book club devoted to E.M. Forster’s queer...
Hasan Minhaj cheekily grills Barack Obama about his year-end music lists
Plenty of us keep an eye on Barack Obama’s year-end book, movie, and music roundups, but does the former president actually listen to all that music?...
The best fans for beating the summer heat
A good fan makes a hot-and-sticky day more bearable. Pretty much every home could do with a fan, especially if you don’t have air conditioning. A...
Adtech giant Criteo hit with revised €40M fine by French data privacy body over GDPR breaches
French advertising technology giant Criteo has been issued with a revised fine of €40 million ($44 million) over failings to garner users’ consent around targeted advertising....
