Sadie Gennis is the managing editor of Polygon. She’s been covering TV and entertainment for nearly 15 years, with her work appearing in TV Guide, Variety, and Vulture. Spring is finally here ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of his family and its place in American history. David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko ...

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As a photographer and writer, I’m always absorbing the work of others to inspire my own work. These days most of it comes from social media, magazines and exhibitions, but my personal favorite is ...

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We find ourselves, each other, and freedom in reading. The right to read is a shared value that we can all celebrate, but book bans threaten our rights and freedoms. Let’s stand together to champion ...