'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.
The best queer stories acknowledge pleasure’s colorful origins, unflattering or otherwise
Each vignette is a high-wire act, teetering along the razor’s edge separating shame and desire, passion and violence, actualization and obliteration.
Appreciating the Dogged Dedication and Hopeful Leadership of Taurus
'The Obama Portraits' gives an intimate look at the process, the artists who painted the portraits, and the hope Obama’s presidency provided for Americans
Speaking the language of memes, real-world visual puns reveal the tragicomedy of contemporary life
FOLLOWING is a series of profiles and interviews of the art world social media accounts that make us think, laugh, cry, love, or sometimes just “like.”
Checking in with a few of the Baltimore businesses that sell our magazine
Get vintage clothing and masks delivered to your porch, pick up local coffee and charcuterie, plus ideas for keeping your children and yourself entertained with remote book clubs and story hours.
Curated by Ginevra Shay, the project connected 22 poets and artists with 240 listeners
In this weird and surreal time of social distancing and self-isolation, a stranger’s voice can feel like a warm invitation.
Offill delivers news of the coming doom in clear, piquant prose, arranged as glimmering diaristic fragments
Weather takes an atmospheric view of dread, from domestic to existential, that is particular to our 21st-century life.
What we can learn from the intrepidness of goal-oriented Aries
Author Susan Muaddi Darraj—who is Arab American and born to Palestinian parents—is forging new ground and giving visibility to young girls from this culture.
A conversation with experimental writer and archivist Megan McShea
Proprietary technologies and planned obsolescence collide to make data harder to extract once a file format is no longer supported, leading to a growing concern about the impact of this current “digital dark age.”
Books Perfect for a Global Pandemic from Greedy Reads' Julia Fleischaker
Losing yourself in a good book is a timeless way to manage uncertainty, unease, and being cooped up in a house with the family and roommates that you love so, so, so much, but seriously can you just turn down the volume on your video games please?
There is something in this collection for everyone—the personal, the political, the intimate, the strange, and humorous
In Flourish, Malech's poems rarely alight anywhere near where they begin—often introducing unexpected themes into the fray.
