Books, Arts, and Culture

Here’s your weekly roundup of literary news for librarians, including election year reading lists, books about female friendships, and the best historical fiction of the 21st...

On Sunday, I reviewed I Want to Read All the Books by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Most Book Riot readers are going to identify with the protagonist...

Last spring, Henry Bean, with whom I hadn’t been in touch for at least 30 years, sent me an email to tell me that McNally Editions...

Orlando is Virginia Woolf at play—a piece of frippery, pure queer pleasure, a little romantic, a little coy, hinting at secrets. I have returned to Orlando...

As a poet, I think about how a poem’s formal elements impact its content. To put it another way: form is the container into which we...

Chelsea Bieker’s new novel Madwoman opens with a two-sentence mic drop: “The world is not made for mothers. Yet mothers made the world.” What follows is the story...