15 Must-Read February Children’s Book Releases
I had the hardest time narrowing down this list to my top 15 February children’s book releases. I opened up my tab of February releases and...
Fitting Together Fragments of Narrative with Hala Alyan
At Guernica, Hala Alyan discusses her new novel, The Arsonists’ City, and how her work as a clinical psychologist informs her writing. “I find the two...
Who’s Afraid of Isolationism?
As Russia threatens a new invasion of Ukraine, a segment of politicians and pundits in Washington, D.C., are talking tough. At times, their rhetoric can recall...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for February 3, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter Get This Deal $2.99 Hollow Kingdom by...
A Language of Geometric Forms
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was given a small show at the Museum of Modern Art forty years ago, but the large exhibition there now is the first opportunity...
A Kinetic Endlessness
Silken flounces flying up, his golden, hers blue, up he kicks, out she twists, his right hand takes her left and the naked man slips through:...
Strangers in a Strange Land
Over the years, glimpses into the inner sanctums of the Hasidic world have come along via literary or scholarly works, a few television miniseries, and, once...
The Waste Land
A few years ago I attended an open house at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, southwest of Chicago. It was a lovely Saturday morning, and I...
Scenes of the Crime
John Banville’s first novel, Nightspawn, published more than fifty years ago, is set in Greece, which was then ruled by a military junta. The Irish protagonist,...
White Peonies
This is how it happens, one morningThe ground is only the ground, & thenGreen shoots through the rich brown loam.I learned the word loam when I...
