‘Everything Is Fiction’
In 2012 Granta published a short story by Keith Ridgway called “The Spectacular.” Its narrator, Clive Drayton, is—as Ridgway has acknowledged—a literary novelist not unlike himself....
Whose Art Thrives in Cuba?
The annual congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is usually a staid affair, but this year’s was rocked by controversy. In early May, two...
Continually Startling News
Clare Sestanovich’s debut collection of stories, Objects of Desire, begins with Iris, a young woman, flying home from college. “She is seated between a married couple,”...
Exhilarating Antihumanism
Joy Williams published ten editions of her guidebook to the Florida Keys before she gave up the gig in 2003, after her novel The Quick and...
‘We get the Dialectic fairly well’
We get the Dialectic fairly well,How streams descending turn to trees that climb,That what we are not we shall be in time,Why some unlikes attract, all...
My Eurydice
1967, New York City, East River From Jackson Pollock, I had learned to hateBotticelli’s The Birth of Venus— those white, white sheets—thrown back covers of the...
Book Riot’s Romance Deals for November 24, 2021
Today’s edition of Romance Daily Deals is sponsored by $2.99 The Christmas Holiday by Sophie Claire Get This Deal $1.99 True Love by Jude Deveraux Get...
Book Riot’s Children’s Book Deals for November 24, 2021
Today’s edition of kids’ book deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 A Place to Hang to Moon by Kate Albus Get This Deal $1.99...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for November 24, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller Get This Deal $3.99 The Survivors by Jane Harper...
Get Her, Polly
“Dolls’ Eyes” by A. S. Byatt Her name was Felicity; she had called herself Fliss as a small child, and it had stuck. The children in...
