Kam Reads and Recs

In the summer of 1948, Vladimir Nabokov started writing Lolita during one of his annual butterfly collecting trips (yes, really). 60 years l

Lena Dunham’s memoir shows the distorting effects of fame on her intimate relationships, especially with herself.

A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.

The Grateful Dead, professional wrestling, and the vertigo of the pop culture microhistory.

The adaptation of Victor LaValle's book starts strong right out of the gate.

The street racing franchise has told a saga on the silver screen, so why is it moving to streaming TV?

One hundred and sixty years ago today, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary was published for the first time as a single volume—it had been seri

Here’s a fun fact to celebrate Angela Carter’s birthday: the beloved feminist icon did not care for literary tote saint Joan Didion. Need so

“We wanted to hold a mirror up to Cuba, show the island what the hell it was.”

The siege of the academy continues.

One cold night in December, when I was not yet four years old, my mother woke me while it was still dark, pressing her face against my cheek

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

These novels might make you rethink your dreams of being an astronaut...

1. The International Refugee Organization (IRO) put the three women up in Paris. My eighteen-year-old mother, Ursula; her sister, Traute; an

He repurposed bygone cartoon characters and gave them new life with a queer, magpie sensibility, which still pops two decades after his deat