Books, Arts, and Culture

Geek. Nerd. If you grew up in the 1980s and ’90s like I did, chances are that these were not used in a nice way when...

Not long ago, in our Book Riot Slack (the greatest place on the internet), there was a discussion about The Lord of the Rings. Specifically, we...

I’ve come across several booklists about music and, unsurprisingly, it’s mostly pop stars that you hear on that pop music station that you avoid unless they...

Is it spring where you are? While some parts of the country may be prepping for planting season and watching trees bloom, others (like me) are...

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment,...

Bone magic. Bone trees. Bone orchard. Sara A. Mueller’s The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic where a dying...

Matt Bell’s new craft book, Refuse to Be Done, came into my life when I was struggling to revise a late draft of a novel. Bell’s...