Kam Reads and Recs

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.

The US military has done an about face on LGBTQ+ rights in just over a decade.

When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logg

When I was 13, my father gave me a copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Certainly in the way he taught me to read it, Lolita was never a book

A visceral, queer twist on It Follows? Yes, please...

I can’t remember the first Raymond Carver story I read. “Cathedral” is a safe bet, but I can’t be sure. I only remember that, in my early tw

High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the midd

Kim Gordon’s songwriting with Sonic Youth sought to create a space of subversion between art and politics. Her solo LPs move away from such