Beloved characters like Elizabeth Bennet, Jo March, and Matilda Wormwood feel real to us in part because we get a glimpse of their reading lives. Readers experience a certain intimacy in encountering a fellow bibliophile in a book, in recognizing bookish kindred. We relate when a character gets swept up in a fantastical tale, stays

Prices are skyrocketing across categories. For a while, it was nearly impossible to purchase a dozen eggs for less than $10, and some financial analysts predict that gas prices will hit $10/gallon this year. It’s all the more impressive, then, that so many excellent books across categories remain available for $10 or less. Representing fiction,

If you spend any time on your phone, chances are you know what it means when someone tells you to “touch grass”: put down the phone, step away from the screens, and go outside to experience real life. And with a barrage of seemingly urgent breaking news and infinite feeds to scroll through, many are

Rapidly shifting immigration policy is stoking fear in millions of people, regardless of legal status. Narratives of fear and misinformation have flattened and distorted the stories immigrants who have come to the U.S. One small corrective to this fearmongering is to engage with nuanced stories about immigration that center the experiences of those who have