Books, Arts, and Culture

At least being stuck at home all year meant you got some reading in, right? Just settling in for a long, sustained session with a new...

In The Party Upstairs, Ruby—out of college, out of work, and newly out of a relationship—reminisces often about her senior thesis, a series of dioramas depicting...

All right, friends. We’ve covered a lot of ground since we started this journey into second-tier heroes from lesser known members of the galaxy, spanning Green...

In the sum years of human history, there have been many biographies written by men about other men. While the scope of their achievements shouldn’t be...

We’ve all been there: you know that if a friend of yours would just read this book, they would love it. So we tell them about...

Holly Black is one of those quintessential young adult authors who dramatically convert words into worlds. I recall meeting and interviewing her at New York City...

As fellow Rioters have pointed out, there are plenty of good reasons to join online book clubs, even when we’re not in the middle of a...

Every weekend, Caitlin Gooch drives from her home in Virginia to Wendell, North Carolina, with a trailer full of books, a horse, and one goal: to...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the study of how computers can be made to act intelligently. For most of us lay book (and movie) nerds, we mostly...

Before the pandemic, books were books. Equal parts shadow and illumination, Helen Phillips’s The Need emerged as a sort of sci-fi chiaroscuro portrait of motherhood. Nothing...