What are the benefits of creating and consuming art? Funny story: A few days before writing this review, I stumbled on J.R.R. Talkin’s video essay What Was The Office All About? I thought Michael Schur’s sitcom The Office was fine, if too cringe for me, but out of curiosity I …
“What was it like for authors growing up?” This is the question author Kevin Henkes asked. He then wrote a book in response to that question, the story of young Martha Boyle who wants to be a writer. Olive’s Ocean would later be published in 2003, and go on to …
What can we learn from Shakespeare’s plays centuries after his time?That is the question Gary D. Schmidt asks in his 2007 book, The Wednesday Wars. The book has since sparked many companion books featuring the story’s secondary characters, including Okay for Now (2011) and Just Like That (2021).In the school …
