Heat, Haunting & Heartache: A Young Filmmaker’s Louisiana
The temperature is ninety degrees, with seventy-two percent humidity. Do you know how hot that feels? The National Weather Service tells us 107 degrees, warns that...
Friday Fund Days: Drop Some Dollars and Help Some Classrooms
With the world being a difficult place for those of any marginalized background, one of the things those of us who are looking to do something...
A Brief History of Library Theft
“In 2009, a millionaire named Farhad Hakimzadeh was found guilty of stealing individual pages from ancient books from both the British Library and Oxford’s Bodleian Library....
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 6, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Get This Deal $2.99Witchmark by C.L. Polk Get This...
Get Paid to Hunt for Spelling and Grammar Errors: 7 Places to Find Proofreading Jobs
“Are you any good at proofreading?” I was a second grade teacher at the time and the man asking me was the grandfather of one of...
Have You Ever Been So Angry That You Burst Into Flames?
Unconditional love often comes with a side effect of incessant fear. What happens if the object of affection is hurt? How can you cope with losing...
7 Terrifying Horror Stories About Class
The horror genre and its close kin are well-suited to class-conscious critique. Alien’s working-class protagonists are killed by Xenomorphs, sure, but their deaths are written off...
“Real Life” Captures the Loneliness of Being Black and Queer on Campus
In Brandon Taylor’s debut Real Life, Wallace, a black, queer Alabama-born doctoral student contends with the virtual all-whiteness of a Midwestern campus—and how it infects his...
8 of the Best Women Comics Artists With Monstrous Talent
Women don’t get their share of cred in the comics world (for more to combat this, see #VisibleWomen). But there are tons of them out there,...
The Importance of the Book in Greta Gerwig’s LITTLE WOMEN
Spoilers for people who have not read or seen Greta Gerwig’s Little Women! There’s a lot to love in Greta Gerwig’s movie version of Louisa May...
