Why Can’t You Use a TV as a Monitor?
Gaurav Paswan / Shutterstock Televisions and computer monitors are similar and use mostly the same technology to drive the panels. You can usually use a TV...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 23rd, 2019
Sponsored by our $100 Amazon gift card giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while...
Poetry is for Kids…and Monster & Dragon, Too! (plus a giveaway)
You may know April is National Poetry Month, but to dig a little deeper, I asked Shannon Anderson—author, poet and teacher—to the blog to explain why...
How Often Does Google Update Chrome?
Google updates Chrome regularly with new features, security updates, and more. Chrome downloads those updates and installs them automatically. But how often does that happen? It...
Daily Deals: Philips Hue Kit + 2 Google Home Minis for $170, an iPad for $252, a Razer LED Mousepad for $33, the CORSAIR K95 for $140, and More
Philips, Google, Apple, CORSAIR, Razer Right now, the internet’s full of some wild deals and discounts. These deals range from $200 Apple Watches to $25 hydration backpacks,...
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Latinx Vision of the American West
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection Sabrina & Corina summons a world we hardly recognize, but should. Do you know the origin story of the Navajo? Would...
Going from Cocaine to Novels, with the Help of “Novel with Cocaine”
Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. This time, we asked: What’s a book that changed your mind? Novel with...
7 Books About Women Searching For Home
When I was growing up, the only constant in my life was change. Like Oksana’s family in my novel, Oksana, Behave!, my family left Kiev, Ukraine,...
The Best Portable SSDs
Proxima Studio/Shutterstock Falling prices have moved solid state drives from a premium upgrade you’d save for the boot drive on your main computer to something inexpensive...
Best Mother’s Day gifts 2019: Show mom some love
Mother figures are the backbone of the world. Yours may be your biological mother, or maybe she’s your mother-in-law, your best friend’s mom, or simply someone...
