Beverly Cleary refused to teach kids how to be good -- and generations of young readers fell in love
Beverly Cleary once said that her fans love Ramona 'because she does not learn to be a better girl.'
Beverly Cleary once said that her fans love Ramona 'because she does not learn to be a better girl.'
An Italian media scholar raised on American TV assesses Netflix's ambitious strategy to create original productions…
Half of LGBTQ participants in a recent study experienced discrimination, insults, bullying or abuse while playing, watching…
Photojournalist Ron Tarver spent years photographing people largely ignored in mythic depictions of white cowboys and the…
Three decades after poet Frank X. Walker coined the term 'Affrilachia,' the region's poets and artists continue…
Why did Confederate flags start appearing in the country's anti-lockdown protests?
Trans Day of Visibility, celebrated March 31, is a day to honor the trans community and counter transphobia.
We're the only species that can throw at speeds that kill.
The ethics of idleness have been debated for thousands of years.
Long thought to have originated in Ancient Greece, the golden ratio that forms the basis of the Swiss design style may have…
If you look at the reasons people buy art, almost none of them have to do with the physical work.
Arts organizations have been particularly hard hit, but many may benefit from new sources of emergency government funding.
In physics, entropy is the process of a system losing energy and dissolving into chaos. This applies to social systems in…
Music is supposed to transcend the mundane and horrific. Yet it has also served as an accompaniment to torture and punishment.
The camera has long been used to defy a media landscape steeped in negative portrayals of Black families.
Much of the iconography we associate with witches, from the pointy hat to the cauldron, originated from women working as…
Stereotypically, gay, queer and trans kids flee small towns to find acceptance in big, diverse cities like New York or Chicago.…
Some do so of their own accord, using airport amenities to meet their basic needs. Others, however, would rather be anywhere…
A hospice doctor spent 10 years studying the end-of-life experiences of over 1,400 terminally ill patients.
Do you see a fearsome predator? A fragile icon of impending extinction? What these arctic giants have stood for in art has…