Books & the Arts / In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life.

Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life ... happy or tragic, is not quite like life: There are always too many loose ends, continuations. We accept that a narrative is ...

February is Black History Month. This time is meant to reflect on the contributions Black people have made in the past and amplify the work being done presently. Because of this, I’ve compiled ten ...

Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn (Otago University Press, $35) and The Pets We Have Killed by Barbara Else (Quentin Wilson Publishing, $35) are available in bookstores nationwide. Pretty Ugly has been ...

And my parents were all about books. We got a combined ... Behind the scenes of ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Courtesy of IFC The gore in your film, like Cronenberg’s, feels very visceral.

Although their interests, expertises, and platforms are disparate, they’re united by their love ... like, ‘You guys have your hands in the pot.’” —Giselle Gonzalez, @hopelessbooklover ...

When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well ... He’s just published a new book of poems, self-indulgent verses about love and sex, which she pores over in her free time. As Elvira yearns ...

Shrek is bald with two antennae-like ears ... looking for ugly cartoon characters with glasses, Edna Mode is one of them. She features in the 2004 American animation The Incredibles. She is ...

From a memoir about parents risking it all for their newborn to the heroic story set in 1940s Poland, here are four Reese ...

If you're hungry for a new "Yellowjackets" episode, try these books filled with cults, unhinged women and other (un)savory elements of the show.