For the late-blooming love of RuPaul’s Drag Race

Posted by Tyler Mitchell | Jun 10, 2022

CW: The following article makes a brief mention of SA, racism, and transphobia. A love for...

“American Dirt:” Who’s entitled to tell the stories of the marginalized?

Posted by Cathy Chavez | Jan 21, 2022

Who is “entitled” to tell the stories, asks Cathy Chavez in her review of the controversial book “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins.

Latest Matrix film evolves from revolution to breaking the binary

Posted by Aime Wichtendahl | Jan 19, 2022

What makes Matrix Resurrections stand out above its predecessors, and most of today’s films, is its critique of the technological world we’ve created in the 20 years since the last Matrix film was released in 2003.

Revisit assumptions, could haves and should haves in “The Midnight Library”

Posted by Cathy Chavez | Oct 17, 2021

Many of us humans, flawed and egotistical as we are, believe our own interpretations are the only correct or accurate ones. “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig helps readers recognize that they might be looking at things too narrowly.

Are any lies kind? Worthy questions in Nancy Johnson’s first-time novel

Posted by Cathy Chavez | Sep 7, 2021

Nancy Johnson’s first novel raises a worthy question about lies, despite leaving characters unexplored, writes Cathy Chavez in her new “Off the Shelf” book review.

‘Pray Away’ devastates by showing religion’s leading role in ongoing conversion therapy abuse of LGBTQ+ people

Posted by Aime Wichtendahl | Aug 24, 2021

Pray Away is about how conversion therapy is still happening, targeting transgender people within the LGBTQ+ community, and masquerading as religious love. Read Aime Wichtendahl’s review.