Kam Reads and Recs

There was, last fall, a lot pulling us to see the movie Hamnet—the Shakespearean subject matter, the caliber of the actors, the breathless r

The story begins in the 1990s, not long after the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of twelve new democracies. In this climate, the

Once upon a time, you couldn’t tell a story straight. The problem might be that you began as a poet. That focus on a moment, an image, that

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution addresses citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection under the l

Melissa Lozada-Oliva discusses her short story collection, “nighttime logic,” and the devil.

The fate of Willa Cather’s archives, real and fictional.

Read your way into some of the most compelling sci-fi novels with immersive settings.

These Asian and Asian American cozy mysteries feature all kinds of unlikely detectives, from a disgraced stage magician to high school teach

What began as a European folk practice became a distinctly American ritual of public punishment.

Gays and ghosts have a natural kinship. Both may elicit fear in unsuspecting passerby. You may feel vaguely unmoored, inexplicably nervous a

'Sheep in the Box,' Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest is a meandering sci-fi film on digital resurrection.