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Looking to show off your bookish pride this June? Big Pride events and parades across the country may be canceled due to COVID-19, but pride itself is never canceled. There are lots of ways to celebrate Pride that don’t involve crowds (and if, like me, you hate crowds anyway, you’ve probably been celebrating this way for years). You could curl up with a favorite queer book. There are so many options—maybe you’re in the mood for queer romance, or some delightful queer YA, or one of these fabulous queer audiobooks. Perhaps something on this list of the best queer books...

Some of our favorite summer accessories are ladies sun hats. Depending on the style of hat, you can transform any piece in your wardrobe, from funky to classic, retro Hollywood to Royal Family! Until recently it was difficult to travel with several hats, but the designers have stepped up the game with many offering foldable versions of our favorite headdress. Plan, Protection, Prevention Aside from being a great way to express your mood and personal style, this clever accessory is also a mighty friend in disguise. This is because sun hats are the only accessory that protects you from the...

Sick of 2020? Growing numbers of people are turning back the hands of time, drawn by a retro aesthetic and a comforting sense of nostalgiaEvery Saturday evening, a suburban street in Greater Manchester bears witness to a peculiar sight: at the first-floor bay window of a 1930s semi, top-hatted heads bow over a platter of Victoria sponge slices, silhouetted against the sepia light of a gasoline lamp. Eavesdroppers might even catch the strains of Gilbert and Sullivan issuing from an 1890s gramophone as Michael Koropisz, a 24-year-old portrait artist who goes about his daily life as if he’s a well-to-do...

Several years ago I was a very small hamster running endlessly around on a very large wheel. The proud owner of a high street day spa and training school in Somerset, UK, that was printing me money, but killing me softly. At nearly 50 years old, my children were slowly leaving the nest and finding their own way in the world. But grey skies, pouring rain, local council ‘clipboarders’ and high taxes suddenly had no appeal to me, and that wretched wheel just kept grinding on and on, it was definitely time to change my life around. In a previous...

The author recalls dawn starts, oven-hot air and the chorus of cicadas that accompanied his walk through the hills north of RomePoggio Mirteto, Cantalupo, Casperia, Vacone, Configni, Stroncone. Hilltop towns in the ancient land of Sabina, calling to each other across parched patchworks of vineyard and cornfield. Woods, orchards, olive groves. You could drive to these places, of course. But my experience is, when you arrive on foot they are different. They are better. And best of all in summer.You’ll need water with you at all times for this adventure. A light backpack with just one change of clothes. Trekking...