As summer is approaching, the weather is getting warmer making it a great time to take pets to cool off, play, make friends and get some exercise. Local dog parks around Louisville are some of the best...

In the essay “In Distrust of Movements,” Wendell Berry names the Nameless Movement for Better Ways of Doing — “too long and uncute to go on a bumper sticker” — as a catchall for what he is...

Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” turned what I thought would be an impulse read to fill my free time into an immediate favorite and a novella with such intense relevance and imagery that I haven’t...

When I first pulled Brittany Cavallaro's “A Study in Charlotte” off the shelf, I didn't think I would like it. I judged a book less by its cover and more by its premise: a female, teenage Sherlock...

In December 2025, an engagement announcement appeared in The Boston Globe. Emma Harwood and Charlie Thompson were tying the knot. They were to be wed on April 3, 2026. Four months later, on April 3,...

When most people hear the word “Frankenstein” they automatically think of the big green monster with bolts keeping his neck together or a Halloween costume. However, in the original story by Mary Shelley,...

Lillianne Berfield (12, VA) gives an inside look into her creative process as she dives deep into her experience in Manual's acclaimed Visual Arts magnet.

Medallion, Ohio is full of religious people. They hope, they condemn, they foresee, they judge. But they do not yearn — these post-slavery Black Americans — for any kind of a promised land. They see...

Writing a novel about rock singers sounds almost as hard as their drugs are. “Men pluck out chords in a sound-dead studio” isn’t fun, nor is “men trash hotel rooms and cheat on their wives.”...

Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age epistolary novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” follows the freshman year of Charlie, an awkward fifteen-year-old grappling with the aftermath of his best friend’s...

“Project Hail Mary” was the first science fiction novel I ever picked up of my own volition. It was intimidating, coming in at around 500 pages, and its science was complex and sometimes difficult...

There are songs that command you to adore them. There is no other way to listen. Put on a six-minute track by The Velvet Underground and you’d better commit your every flash of attention to it, otherwise...