As ever more tech and innovation infiltrates our lives, in a sense, we grow dumber because there’s so much we don’t understand. But try we must. Whether it’s the molecular science behind cutting-edge COVID vaccines or the way your... Read More

A particularly sadistic sort of golf fan tunes into just a couple major tournaments a year because, frankly, they like to see cocky, pampered young millionaires have nervous breakdowns on television. Well, here we are—it’s Masters... Read More

We mere mortals are often mesmerized by the complexity of the world around us, so much of which we don’t understand. And we also reserve that feeling of awe for the brilliant artists, athletes, scientists, and designers walking among... Read More

Let’s skip the intro niceties and jump right to a passage from Meg Nola’sForewordreview to best understand a remarkable criminal justice event that happened in Baltimore soon after the American Civil War: “Historian Gordon H.... Read More

If you’re a comics fan, these are the names of legend: Avengers, Conan the Barbarian, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Machine Man, Nick Fury, Savage Sword of Conan, Uncanny X-Men, and graphic novel lovers will surely know... Read More

To be a woman is to recognize the heavily male-centered annals of history as the original fake news. In their disregard and erasure of women’s lives, stories, and accomplishments, male historians have long perpetuated a wicked,... Read More

Is there anything a graphic novel can’t do? We think not. Take Myriam Steinberg’s Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)Fertility—an extraordinary feat of visual storytelling chronicling her five years of fertility treatment prior to the... Read More

It doesn’t happen but a few times a year but when a book like Kazim Ali’s Northern Light comes along our excitement is palpable—but the happy discovery also bears with it the duty and responsibility we have to alert our readers and... Read More