A Moral Witness
If journalism is a rough draft of history, then war reportage is very rough indeed. In the hurly-burly of violent conflict, journalists have none of the...
Syria’s Lost Chance
On June 29, 1920, the Syrian envoy Habib Lutfallah stood before a committee of French senators in the Luxembourg Palace, that vast, baroque monument to France’s...
Wendell Berry’s High Horse
Not quite thirty years ago, I heard Wendell Berry give a talk at an organic farming conference in Texas. He was funny! That’s what I remember....
Because It’s Still There
On the morning of May 22, 2019, Nirmal Purja, a Nepalese former officer in the British special forces, was making his way down from the 29,029-foot...
‘Teeming with Things Unknown’
The art of Francisco Goya has stood as a beacon over the cultural landscape during the nearly two centuries since his death, at age eighty-two, in...
5 Nonfiction Writing Techniques That Will Captivate Readers
Do fiction and nonfiction writing have anything in common? After all, their goals are fundamentally different. One wants to entertain, the other one mainly educates. But...
Rumaan Alam on Genre Snobbery
At the Paris Review, author Rumaan Alam discusses his suspenseful new book, Leave the World Behind, and the efficiency of genre writing. “I think there is...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 14, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Saga Press, publishers of Rebecca Roanhorse’s Today’s Featured Deals $3.99House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas...
Ghost Solicitors Not Allowed
“Peony Lanterns”by Aoko Matsuda translated by Polly Barton “Good evening to you, sir!” He’d ignored the doorbell three times already when he heard the woman’s voice...
Poetry About Finding Power in the Grotesque
francine j. harris’s newest collection, Here is the Sweet Hand, asks what it means to be alone and how that solitude frames our ways of seeing....
