The Vanishing Point of the Laws of War
The United Nations has assessed that 276 million people worldwide today are “severely food insecure.” Forty million are in “emergency” conditions, one step short of the...
Soft Shapes
The cover of our Fall Books Issue was hand-drawn and -painted by Jon Klassen, the Canadian writer and illustrator of a Caldecott Award–winning picture book trilogy...
In the Shadow of Invasion
In August I spent two weeks traveling around Ukraine by train, using my sketchbook to document quotidian existence in the shadow of Russia’s invasion. By the...
Lear’s Lyrical Coasts
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon. The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit...
The Same Problem on Repeat
To be an American is to live under a regime of profound inequalities, which result from the same concentrations of wealth that make the country an...
The Painter in the Paint
Andrew Kuo, whose painting Stay Up, 2014 shimmers on the cover of our Summer Issue—the first issue after we redesigned the print magazine—is an artist and...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 1, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $4.99 While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams Get This Deal $4.99 Good Rich People by...
Book Riot’s YA Book Deals of the Day October 1, 2022
The best YA book deals of the day, sponsored by $2.99 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Get This Deal $4.99 Every Body...
The Pope’s Many Silences
Should outrage and atrocity always be denounced whatever the consequences? And will the answer be the same for a private individual, a political leader, and a...
Agatha Christie’s Nightmares
Lucy Worsley is a popular British historian and the chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces. She is interested in women’s lives, the national obsession with murder,...
