I have written more than once that I loathe the idea of driving a computer on wheels. Or a mobile on wheels, which is almost the same these days. That said, I was pretty confused to see the first ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Dark academia is popular in every season, but the genre shines in ...

University of Technology Sydney provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. The world of graduate research studies in higher education is not typically deemed cinematic material: ...

Goodbye, grays and beige! Hello, to the dark hues that homeowners are dying to decorate with this season. Rich autumnal colors, book-lined walls and warm lighting are setting the tone for interiors ...

The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start. By Jenny Hamilton Jenny ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Moody settings, mysterious schools — these irresistible novels have it all Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, ...

At the heart of dark academia is a simple premise: when knowledge becomes obsession, something – or someone – must break. Once a niche literary aesthetic, dark academia has evolved into a ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these ...

Combine the ever popular genre of “dark academia” with a thoughtful, philosophical meditation on the afterlife, and you have R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis. In Kuang’s newest novel, her protagonists, ...

When I learned R.F. Kuang was taking readers to hell in her newest book, I groaned. Haven’t we done this enough? I’m not just talking about Orpheus retrieving Eurydice, Dante’s “Inferno” and Virgil’s ...