It’s Thursday. You’re tired. The 24/7 news cycle and, specifically, Twitter is really bumming you out. You’ve got a couple of deadlines but you’re having trouble finding the motivation. We’re… Read more »

Books take us on adventures. Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller is a book for music lovers, sci-fi connoisseurs, pop culture hawks, and adventure seekers.… Read more »

When David Bowie died suddenly on January 10, 2016, so did a part of me. That day, I had already spent forty-eight hours pondering Blackstar, Bowie’s final album, which had… Read more »

As we know, audiobooks are becoming a bigger slice of the publishing pie. This means that both publishers’ and audio companies’ thinking caps are presumably securely fastened, as they seek new ways… Read more »

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, subway stations are best avoided. So it’s incredibly bizarre that, for the next month, there is one subway station you should actually pay money to see:… Read more »

It’s true that we’ve only now reached the other side of the fomo/anxiety-inducing Reading Round Up Season, but you might want to indulge in just one more list before you… Read more »

Last year, Carla Hayden became the first woman and the first African American and the first actual librarian (in a long time) to be named Librarian of Congress. And it was good. We… Read more »

Fifty is the new twenty-five (probably), and that’s excellent news for the Beatles’ epochal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was released in the US fifty years ago today (it’d… Read more »

It’s virtually impossible to keep up with all of the destructive decisions coming out of the six-day-old Trump administration. It truly is a parade of horrors. But, that doesn’t mean… Read more »

Editor’s note: When JW McCormack—electric ghost of literatures forgotten and yet-to-come—originally agreed to let us run this piece, we were thrilled, because nobody writes like JW, and, for that matter, nobody… Read more »