A Beginner’s Guide to Dōjinshi
If you spend a good amount of time in manga circles, you may have heard the term dōjinshi before. And you may have certain assumptions about...
Your Study Guide to Light Academia
If you’ve been on the bookish side of the internet for long enough, you’ve most likely come across the sub-genre Dark Academia. Popular as both a literary sub-genre...
We Need Better Terms to Describe Romance Novels
We need better ways to describe romance novels — particularly in terms of sexual content. In terms of genres, sub-genres, and tropes, I think we’re set....
8 Fascinating New Nonfiction Books to Read in April 2023
Are you ready to add a whole lot of excellent nonfiction to your spring TBR? I hope so, because there is so much of it coming...
New April 2023 YA Releases for Your TBR
Happy April, bookish friends! April may bring showers and cold blustery days, but it is also bringing us some amazing new YA releases that are making...
Clint Smith Returns to His Roots in Poetry
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across...
2023 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Announced
The 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award winner has been announced. Out of 512 American novels and short story collections published in the U.S. in 2022, Yiyun Li’s book,...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 6, 2023
Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers Get This Deal $2.99 A Restless Truth by Freya Marske Get This Deal $1.99...
I Want to Live A Life Outside of Gender
This essay, by Logan Hoffman-Smith, is the third in Electric Literature’s new limited essay series, Both/And, which centers the voices of trans and gender nonconforming writers...
I Want to Live A Life Outside of Gender
This essay, by Logan Hoffman-Smith, is the third in Electric Literature’s new limited essay series, Both/And, which centers the voices of trans and gender nonconforming writers...
