Media & Literature

Media & Literature

A sanctuary for artists to hone their craft through writing workshops, art shows, and a residency/studio program

With everything in the world in constant disarray, it’s heartening to know one thing has not changed: Sidney Clifton’s vision.

What happens when true believers have to confront scientific facts?

A lively and mostly persuasive argument that the Shroud of Turin is not Jesus Christ's funerary cloth, but was instead likely fabricated by an artist in the 1350s, and then slowly embraced by Catholic officials who saw an opportunity for profit.

With an enduring Scorpio intensity, Tiny Nightmares weaves in human and environmental agendas alongside zombies and vampires

The anthology goes way beyond things that go bump in the night, investigating all the profound ways that humans can be fearful of things, both real and imagined.

Anthology featuring nine authors from around the US and Canada delivers bite-sized portions of terror

The horror and trauma here are more implicit and embedded into the place, more chronic than acute, and all too familiar.

Authors Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman strive for balance in their longterm, long-distance friendship

In classic Libra style, Ann and Aminatou are so inseparable that they actually write the book in one voice.

With each letter, Bobbi Rush elevates written language and transforms it into song

Short, spiritual, succinct, and sincere, Language of the Crow is a primer on liberation, self-discovery, introspection, and intuition.

Processing your core love unit in peril requires deep work of the mind and soul.

To maintain sanity, I escaped a lot to the wilds of the shore, particularly Assateague Island.

'Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving' is a guide to getting away with doing a little less

A time-management guide mixed with tidbits of neuroscience, social science, history, and personal reflection, 'Do Nothing' is ideal for our dear Virgos who love to improve on any aspect of their lives.

Leilani’s debut brims with the potential energy of a young artist battling precarity

Global pandemic notwithstanding, the future was always bleak. But the desire for the good life, or some semblance of it, is a stubborn flame.

Just as Leo's bold personality can be a lot to process, so is 'Parakeet'

This month’s book, Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino, is what I call a handful.

Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg talk about corrupt cops and the craft of writing collaboratively

In the book, I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad, authors Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg critically examine the tales of terror and havoc wrought by the BPD in a previously unseen way. 

Finding Cancer's courage to leave its protective, outer crab shell

The challenges of Blackness and queerness are central in this book, articulated together through the lens of family.

Heidi Daniel, Carla DuPree, Aaron Henkin, Peter Devereaux, and Sheri Booker

This edition of Quarantine Diaries focuses on five writers, editors, and literary advocates, and their strategies for surviving quarantine. 

Following Gemini's restless intellectual curiosity

Two books that highlight gender inequity and identity, intersecting in imaginative and realistic and always-necessary ways.

On Anne Boyer’s ‘The Undying,’ Reopening America, and Capitalist Medicine

A challenging, instructive text in this period of mass illness and isolation, when it is hard to imagine a future, though we must.

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