A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the
author reading: the Q&A. This week, Sapphire speaks with Taiye Selasi about her new book, Ghana Must Go, and why she needed to leave New York to finish writing it.
...even and especially tattoo shoppe-based reality shows like Black Ink Crew.
Read MoreEveryone 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?
Read MoreIf you don't care about sports but care about better understanding a sports fan (and watching good movies), watch Slap Shot.
Read MoreThe Center Cannot Hold, by Elyn Saks, is the first book featured in this series about books by the mentally ill, about mental illness, for everybody.
Read MoreIn the final installment of Building Hamlet, set designer Meredith B. Ries offers her final reflections on what she considers "[an] experiment with blending humor and tragedy, evil and humanity... a dark jibe at religious faith, at royalty, at ambition. [Hamlet is] a ghost story and a love story."
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