I do not know about you but I love cats. Their absolutely adorable antics are endlessly entertaining and make for such silly little characters. It is obvious... Read More
One of the most controversial authors of our generation—or at least of the part that discovered reading only after BookTok made it cool—is Colleen Hoover. Th... Read More
Isabel Allende, a Chilean-American writer who’s received Chile’s National Literature Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014 by President Barack ... Read More
In Middle Eastern music traditions, few instruments hold as much cultural and spiritual weight as the ney, a slender reed flute made from giant cane. Its roo... Read More
Words Without Borders is an organization dedicated to facilitating global literary conversation. With 4,600 writers and translators operating in 147 countrie... Read More
The siku is a set of reed panpipes widely used in the Andean highlands, where it serves as a cultural cornerstone. Unlike many other wind instruments, the si... Read More
Every few months, BookTok engages in the same debates: Do audiobooks count as reading? How many books can you read in a month before it “doesn’t count”? Does... Read More
If you look through a bookshelf full of contemporary poetry you would be hard pressed to find a book that contained a poem that uses traditional rhyme or met... Read More
Self-help books have flooded the market, offering promises of life-changing wisdom and actionable strategies to transform habits, mindsets, and productivity.... Read More
In Ireland’s misty countryside, the Celtic harp occupies a special niche. Historically, harpers held places of high esteem in royal courts, weaving clan hist... Read More
M.L. Wang’s The Sword of Kaigen is set in the isolated Kusanagi Peninsula, where the Matsuda family has spent generations training to be the empire’s stronge... Read More
Ars Poetica is a very pretty and elegant sounding term meaning the “art of poetry”. First being used to describe a poem by the Roman poet Horace, it has beco... Read More
