These are the Finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards are one of the biggest and longest-running sci-fi and fantasy awards, and through the years, they’ve been plagued with controversy. This year seems...
Publishers Weekly Now Charges for Review Submissions. And I Get It.
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Publishers Weekly is Now Charging for...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 7, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson (ed.) Get This Deal $2.99 Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Get This Deal...
New Historical Fiction at the Top of My List
The beginning of April means not only a new month, but a new season, and with it comes a new chapter of the year, and let...
A Bildungsroman Based in Berlin
If you asked me to share my favorite kind of book, my brain might, if it could ever decide, circle and land on prose by poets....
What To Read for the Read Harder Challenge in April 2025
It’s impossible to keep up with all the intriguing new books that come out every month. We do monthly new releases round-ups for each of our...
Floral Bookmarks for Spring? Groundbreaking.
In recent years, I’ve really leaned into living seasonally. It’s so easy for time to blend together if you don’t deliberately look for ways to delineate...
Therapy Is Not a Cure for Climate Disaster
Therapist by Lydia Millet “That’s just the new normal, folks,” said a radio host. She heard it constantly. Everything bad was referred to, with a jocular...
Dean Spade’s Love Letter to the Gay, Horny, and Confused
I think often about the fact that I am a first-generation lover. By this I mean that I am the first woman in my family to...
8 Powerful Memoirs About Being Mixed-Race
As American families have grown more racially and culturally mixed, so too have their stories. These stories, more common than ever, are captured in memoirs by...
