With over 50,000 libraries in more than 70 countries around the world, chances are you’ve stumbled across a Little Free Library before — you might even be a Little Free Library steward yourself. These adorable, birdhouse-style “take a book, return a …

Since long before the days of Doppler radar and cable networks dedicated entirely to the changing weather, humans have been fascinated by — and challenged with — extreme weather. Writers, artists, and makers have found inspiration in nature — the goo…

In the life of a true blue book-lover, every season is a season for reading: those organizational and/or personal wellness books that always seem to pop up in January, the travel memoirs that sneak into your TBR pile around spring break, July’s never…

In Hillary Clinton’s just-released memoir, What Happened, out Sept. 12 from Simon & Schuster, the former presidential candidate opens with the election loss that devastated voters and Americans everywhere — not least of all, HRC herself. But Clinton …

In her new memoir, What Happened, out from Simon & Schuster on Sept. 12, Hillary Clinton shares all the ins and outs of the U.S. presidential election that still has American citizens and folks around the world scratching their heads in confusion. An…

Hillary Clinton's much-anticipated new memoir, What Happened, landed on bookstore shelves Sept. 12. Readers who haven’t already gotten an early glimpse are undoubtedly eager for answers to the question that HRC herself has probably been asking since …

If you’re half as in love with Emma Watson as I am, then chances are you’ve caught an Instagram post or two of the actor secreting around global cities, hiding books on the London tube, Paris sidewalks, or New York City memorials. But the gal book-lo…

Who isn’t in desperate need of a little more mindful self-care these days? I know I am, especially as summer winds down and I start to enter serious hibernation mode — but from keeping my cell phone ringer turned all the way up at nap time to resched…

The list of things I love about fall is practically endless: the changing weather, Pumpkin Spice Lattés, the leaves turning color up and down the east coast, the not-so-distant memories of a brand new school year, more Pumpkin Spice Lattés and, of co…

Book-lover, I know what you’re thinking: when am I going to find the time to finish a DIY project while I still have all these books to read? Fair question, for sure; especially coming from someone whose TBR pile is probably stacked ceiling-high. But…

All the way back in October of 2014 Vogue magazine was the first to announce that a documentary about Joan Didion was officially on its way to screens near you — a not-surprising choice since Vogue was the magazine where Didion started her writing ca…

For book-lovers across the country, the month of September always plays host to Banned Books Week — a time for adding plenty of contested and controversial reads to your TBR pile. For Washington D.C.-based lovers of banned books, Sept. 5 marked the s…

Beginning with a personal essay published in the New York Times in 2012, writer and debut memoirist Andrea Jarrell has walked (or rather, written) the path many hardworking writers aspire to: one leading from celebrated Modern Love column to publishe…

Just because school is back in session (for those lucky folks, at least) and Pumpkin Spiced lattes have made their always-anticipated return to the Starbucks menu, it doesn’t mean that the season for travel is over. In fact, it might be just beginnin…

Since November of 2014, when poet Rupi Kaur’s then-self-published debut poetry collection, Milk and Honey, was released for the very first time, readers have not stopped talking about her — and with Kaur’s blend of spare verse, line drawings, and soc…

Chances are you’ve seen it before: a full page of text that looks like the world’s most hard-to-please editor went after it with a thick, black permanent marker, leaving only a smattering of visible words scattered across the page. Or, more simply pu…

In the months since Donald Trump has become president, more and more people have become inspired to join the Resistance — whether that means volunteering, campaigning, donating, making calls, educating themselves and others on the issues, or otherwis…

In the months since Donald Trump has become president, more and more people have become inspired to join the Resistance — whether that means volunteering, campaigning, donating, making calls, educating themselves and others on the issues, or otherwis…

In case you haven’t heard, poetry isn’t just for your high school English class anymore. In a world littered with 140-character diatribes and live streams of information coming in quicker than we can process it all, people are turning to poetry in a …

Since October of 2004 readers have been flocking to the New York Times — not for the latest breaking scoop or political analysis (which the daily has been printing since all the way back in September of 1851) but for the Times’ weekly Modern Love col…