Gracie Jin

The Big Bang Theory is a complete television anomaly. In this golden age of television, of streaming and Netflix and DVR, a very traditional laugh-tracked TV sitcom about a group of dorky guys and their friends managed to become the most popular…

The e-book is not going away — and that's not a bad thing for books.  Ever since the advent of the Kindle, a doomsday cloud has hovered over the world of book publishing, a portent that the rise of the e-book will mean the fall of the print book,…

Still snacking on post-Valentine's Day sale candy that you bought for yourself? Don't worry — there are plenty of reasons to be happy about being single: You don't have to buy candy for anyone else in a false display of monetized affection, you can…

In 2010, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts published statistics about the rates of publication of men vs. women in respected literary outlets. The results, now widely known as the VIDA Count, were appalling: only 10-35% of authors covered in major book…

Great American Readers, may I have your attention please? If you haven't yet heard of Chang-rae Lee, there'll be no escaping his name now.  Lee has just published his fifth novel, On Such a Full Sea, a dystopian story of a post-climate change and…

There's no denying that the world of books is changing. But literature lovers are keeping up. Six years after the birth of the e-book reader Amazon Kindle, we're no longer groaning about the death of traditional books. Even the most die-hard…

Imagine this: Jay Z, Michael Phelps, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, and Justin Timberlake are stuck on an island together, with nothing but ... their kids. (Also imagine that they all have young children, aged 4-5.) That's the premise for the new…

Forget clichéd assertions that all Asians look the same. Many Americans look at China and see a rising economic monolith set against a cultural monotone: After all, the harsh censorship of China's government must suppress individual expression and…

The holiday season has officially begun, and with it comes the head-scratching over what to get all your friends for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Thanksgivukkah, or just for the sake of secular winter cheer. How about a book? Books make the best…