Laughing Last
In the opening scene of Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour, a novel about an Anglo-Irish household in the first half of the twentieth century, a fifty-seven-year-old woman...
The Story Behind Penguin Modern Classics’ Iconic Cover Designs
At The Guardian, Killian Fox takes a closer look at Henry Eliot’s The Penguin Modern Classics Book, which contains everything you need to know about the most acclaimed literature of...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for November 12, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Get This Deal $1.99 Mongrels by Stephen Graham...
Craighead County Library’s Battle Against Censorship
Libraries are community hubs. A healthy, thriving library will provide information, shelter, and support. This is what the Craighead County Library in Jonesboro has tried to...
Fruits of Empire
In a busy market in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, the botanist David Fairchild, sporting a pith helmet, white suit, and large white mustache, ate a halved...
7 of the Best Writing Residencies in Florida
I love writing in the wintertime, but what I love even more is when that winter is sunny and brisk, no snow or polar vortices, and...
Students Petition for Library Books, School Board Members Want to Burn LGBTQ+ Titles, and More Censorship News: November 12, 2021
It’s been great to see more coverage of the wave of book challenges and censorship attempts — both successful and not. But it’s worth keeping in...
Nemo the Library Fish’s New Job, La Revo Books, and More Good Book News This Week
It’s easy to feel despair when you stare at terrible news headlines all day long. It can be overwhelming. But of course, negative headlines are much...
22 Books to Read If Your School Won’t Teach Critical Race Theory: The List List #475
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Dark Mystery & Thrillers Because Who Needs Sleep?
Launched in 2019, Nightfire, the new horror imprint from Tor, encompasses the breadth of horror, from short story collections to novellas and novels, from standalone works...
