Quiz: Plan Your Perfect Winter Vacation and We’ll Assign a Poem to Read
Well, it’s officially wintertime, folks! I know it can be a real struggle to return to regular life following a lovely, long holiday break. The seasonal...
The History of Consent in Romance
Content warning: this post discusses issues of consent and references sexual assault. Despite how some may see the romance genre as just smutty bodice rippers, it...
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...
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...
