An Examination of the Trauma Plot
At The New Yorker, Parul Sehgal reflects on the trauma plot and how it has come to dominate stories both on the page and on screen. Sehgal...
Poet and Civil Rights Activist Maya Angelou to Be First Black Woman on the U.S. Quarter
The United States Mint has announced that Maya Angelou will be the first Black woman to be featured on the U.S. quarter. The quarter will be...
The William Trevor Reader: “The Hotel of the Idle Moon”
It feels safe to say that no other writer of great stature wrote more often than William Trevor about old people. Only Alice Munro comes close—perhaps...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 11, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict Get This Deal $1.99 Mango, Mambo,...
GENDER QUEER May Return to Wake County Public Library Shelves
Last month, we reported on the removal of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer from shelves at Wake County Public Library (WCPL). The decision was made without committee...
Hot, Medium, or Mild? Jenessa Abrams Values How You Want to be Critiqued
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?”, we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing....
Who Gets to Have Gut Instinct in Big Screen Action Movies?
It was my gut, not my mind, that first suggested to me that the films I was consuming represented less a leap for womankind than an...
20 Must-Read Queer Found Family Books
Queer people have been making found families for as long as we’ve been around. For a lot of queer folks, found family and queerness are inextricably...
Quiz: What Book Should I Read Next?
The holidays are over, and let’s face it: we’d all like nothing more than to curl up with a good book or 12 and read until...
9 Nail-Biting Fantasy Books About Forbidden Magic
Magic in stories can be many things, from a rare force only accessible by the Chosen One to something so everyday and mundane that society is...
