Randa Jarrar Confronts America’s Amnesia
At Electric Literature, Randa Jarrar discusses her memoir, Love Is An Ex-Country, and the importance of confronting America’s history in order to grow from past mistakes....
Open Letter: Release Otero Alcántara
To President Miguel Díaz-Canel: We the undersigned condemn the detention of the Black artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a leader of the San Isidro Movement, a group...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 26, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas Get This Deal $2.99 The Left...
Book Riot’s Romance Deals of the Day for May 26, 2021
Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 The Duke Effect by Sophie Jordan Get This Deal $0.99 All the Better Part of Me by Molly Ringle Get This Deal...
Impossible Lessons from My First Year in American High School
“New Life” by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry Mrs. Jones was my twelfth-grade biology teacher, whose husband had left her for the ninth-grade English teacher after twenty-two years of...
7 Queer Books with Heart-Stopping Twists
Narrative twists have gripped audiences for centuries, from the devastating filicidal revelations in Medea to the operatic B-movie theatrics of Showgirls. We love to be shocked,...
How Shopping at a Local Indie Bookstore Made Me Feel Whole Again
I’ve never lived in an area with an abundance of independent bookstores. We did have a few used bookstores when I was younger, but they’ve all...
5 Recent and Upcoming Cocktail Books to Whet Your Appetite
One of my pre-pandemic joys was sitting at a cocktail bar reading a book. I got to enjoy the atmosphere of the bar, a tasty cocktail,...
10 Fish Books for Kids: They Don’t Get Betta Than This
Are your kids fishy about fish? That’s not a good pun, but this is a good list of fish books for kids! Some are board books...
5 New Books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is still far from over, yet there is a new “virus” that currently plagues the United States: anti-Asian and anti–Asian American hate. It...
