The Boy in the Black Suit

One of the best things about reading as a kid is the first time you see yourself in a book, read a character who feels and looks and sounds so much like you that it’s as if the author liquefied your soul and used it as ink. But the lack of diversity long suffered by […]

The only thing more perversely satisfying than loving a TV show nobody else seems to appreciate is learning that show actually has a passionate, outsized following, and the suits who canceled it must now face the fact that they were WRONG WRONG WRONG. Some of the shows below were killed long before their time; others found a […]

Sometimes you just need to curl up with a good book and gross-sob your heart out. It’s cathartic. It’s cleansing. And it’s preferable, because your other options include listening to Coldplay’s “Fix You” on a loop or rewatching the first ten minutes of Up over and over again, and I mean jeez. Ease up, Pixar. […]

This Black History Month, pick up one of these eight must-read books that will have you rethinking the narrative. Titles from bright new voices like Jason Reynolds and Renée Watson mix with must-reads from pioneers like Jacqueline Woodson, Kwame Alexander, and Walter Dean Myers to form a new library of soon-to-be classics. And these are […]