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Throughout this long year-that’s-been-a-decade, most of us have whiled away an afternoon dreaming of what we’ll do when it’s over. Many people have elaborate travel itineraries...

Recommending authors like Carmen María Machado is a difficult thing to do. I’ve read both In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties and...

Did you know Book Riot has a podcast dedicated to all things YA? You do now! (Or maybe you already did, in which case, thank you...

In February, the Ripped Bodice (hereafter referred to as TRB) released their annual State of Racial Diversity in Romance Report. This report is something that owners...

I’m not primarily a visual learner, and the picture book and visual rhetoric courses I took during my master’s program were the toughest classes I’ve ever...

“Controversial” can be a difficult thing to measure, and that’s why this list is not simply a list of the most frequently banned books. Otherwise, children’s...

Jonny Sun, the wonderfully original author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too, is back with a collection of essays and other writings in...

With the return of My Hero Academia to our lives (Season 5 has finally started!), let’s talk about this well-loved manga. What draws us to the...

5 SFF Books About the Positive Power of Anger was originally published in our science fiction & fantasy newsletter, Swords & Spaceships. Sign up for it...

Sappho, the original Lesbian poet! She is the namesake of not only lesbians, but sapphics in general. Truly a queer icon. While we know almost nothing...