Michelle Anne Schingler
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Cambridge, MA, United States
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6 Science Fiction Books About Space That Are Out Of This World
Earth is an exhausting place to be right now. Rainforests are burning, ice caps are melting, and there are grim projections for the future—not to mention the cruelties we inflict upon one another. R → Read More
8 Nights of Jewish Books: A Suggested Hanukkah Reading (and Gifting!) List
Prepare yourself for some bad puns for this list of Jewish books (I know the tradition is fried foods, but I prefer to cheese it up):Hanukkah is coming! But eight nights equals a latke of presents → Read More
What Is Low Fantasy? Your Guide To The Subgenre
What makes a book low fantasy vs. high fantasy? What are some standout books to read for kids and adults? We've got you covered. → Read More
15 Bookish Things That Millennials Have Ruined
Stack "reading lists that only featured white men" next to Toys-R-Us and blood diamonds. → Read More
30 Readalike Titles for Your Favorite 90s TV Shows
For those of you who know that rainy Sundays are for binge watching your favorite nineties television shows, I present: this list. Hey, you can still hang out on the couch with the remote in one hand → Read More
20+ Of The Best Food Books from 2018
Get out your stretchy pants: these food books have set the table and are ready to absolutely delight you with their gastronomic knowledge, cross-cultural insights, and historical contextualizations. S → Read More
20 Awesome Post-Apocalyptic Books from 2018
The world felt like it ended in 2016. Then again in 2018. But if there's one thing that speculative fiction reminds us, it's that the world can end a thousand times, in a thousand different ways—and → Read More
Thanks A Lot, Trump: When an Old Favorite Becomes Newly Problematic
A reader looks at a former favorite book, the way they've pitched the book to other readers, and how both feel uncomfortable under today's administration. → Read More
Reading CUNT in Public (And Other Ways to Let Books Help You Through This Week)
After watching Dr. Christine Blasey Ford relive her trauma in the Kavanaugh investigation, one reader found solace in Inga Muscio's feminist classic. → Read More
50 Walt Whitman Quotes And Poems for Every Occasion
"I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be." Or so my social media biography has read since I first fell in love with the cosmic and quotidian visions of Walt Whitman, as → Read More
Publishers to Watch: Orenda Books
Unexpected, great reading experiences are like diving down a rabbit hole, or a new addiction that must be chased. You pick up a book by chance, having decided to try something new, and then it hits → Read More
I Can’t Handle This Reality, So I’m Reading Science Fiction
I've been reading Conscience for months now, but in a slow and plodding way. I'm absorbing it in such minute increments that it seems I'll never finish. It moves around my house in various states of → Read More
On SHARP OBJECTS and Not Demanding That Our Women Leads be Perfect
The small screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects is in its final week. The book itself is gritty, emotionally challenging, and proffers horrifying surprises—as befits a murder mystery, → Read More
10 Literary References to stop THE LAST JEDI Spoilers Dead in Their Tracks
If you still haven't seen THE LAST JEDI and are doing all that you can to avoid reveals, here are ten literary references to deflect those ubiquitous spoilers. → Read More
An Invocation for Writers: May Your Work Be Banned
A call for writers to create art that is a light in our current darkness. → Read More
I Would Not Review WHAT HAPPENED for Anything in the World
"We have reviewed Hillary to death. We did it for decades---told her what to wear, how to walk..." Why one reader will not be reviewing WHAT HAPPENED. → Read More
My Library Book Borrowing Dilemma
An errant borrower of library books confesses to being inexplicably incapable of returning them on time. → Read More
An Anthony Scaramucci-Inspired Schadenfreude Reading List
Sometimes it's nice to watch the bad guy get their due. → Read More
25 Terrible Book Recommendations
Giving Lolita to your new neighbor and 24 other terrible book recommendations. → Read More
Oh Hillary, My Hillary: A Reader’s Post-Book Conference Lament
As a reader, I keep narrowly missing Hillary---both in the flesh, and as a personification of our best democratic hopes. → Read More