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Six Forgotten YA Novels You Should Revisit Now

March 11, 2013

Every once in a while I’ll vaguely remember the premise of a book I read as a child and vainly try to Google its title. Many truly great YA books go forgotten, so the ones that do stick in your mind deserve to be celebrated.

Book Sword: Roland Barthes, Louis Sachar, and Alison Bechdel

By Kate Gavino

January 30, 2013

Everyone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.