Sarah Waters

Love Books? You Still Might Suffer From Bibliophobia

Sarah Chihaya on the Real Consequences of Fearing Books

 
By Sarah Chihaya  February 4, 2025
Queer Literature

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
Historical Fiction

Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

By Jo Baker  May 10, 2023
Film & TV

13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

By Emily Temple  March 23, 2023
Queer Literature

Reconstituting Our Shared Past: On the Transformative Power of Queer Historical Fiction

By Beatrice Hitchman  January 6, 2022
Reading Lists

Multiple Narrators, Multiple Truths: A Reading List

By Sophie Ward  September 28, 2021
Queer Literature

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

By Amanda Kabak  July 27, 2021
Queer Culture

Outsiders in Love:
A Reading (and Watching) List

By Emily Hashimoto  September 15, 2020
What to Read Next

The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Over 500 Pages

By Emily Temple  April 9, 2020
What to Read

10 Great Works of Historical Fiction to Ease Your Thomas Cromwell Withdrawal

By Emily Temple  March 11, 2020
The Best of the Decade

The 10 Best Literary Film Adaptations
of the Decade

By Emily Temple  December 12, 2019
Reading Lists

The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels

By Emily Temple  August 26, 2019
Feature

11 Literary Pick Up Lines for the Chronically Dateless

By Emily Temple  February 13, 2019
Feature

10 Contemporary “Dickensian” Novels

By Emily Temple  February 7, 2019
Essay

When a Story is Best Told Backwards

By Samantha Harvey  November 15, 2018
What to Read

9 Novels in Which Houses Have a Life of Their Own

By Melanie Hobson  September 10, 2018
Feature

15 Novels That Subvert Traditional Gender Roles

By Emily Temple  February 5, 2018
Film

Your Essential Literary Guide to the 2017 Golden Globes

By Emily Temple  January 6, 2017
What to Read

The Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years

By Michele Filgate  December 30, 2016
Film

The Best Literary Adaptations of the Year (And the 2016 Books That Should Be Movies)

By Emily Temple  December 30, 2016
Feature

Why Spiritualism Persists in our Fictions and Culture

By Adrian Van Young  July 8, 2016
What to Read

Books I Wish I’d Read as an LGBTQ Teenager

By Amy Gall  March 7, 2016
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