Books, Arts, and Culture

Sometimes you know you just have to have a book for its aesthetic. I’ve bought a book just for its cover before. Let’s be honest, we...

So you’ve picked up a copy of Smile or Fun Home or Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet and you are totally digging it. Words!...

I love reading books of nonfiction essays and memoirs, but sometimes have a hard time committing to a whole book. This is especially true if I...

Planning a baby shower for a member of your book club, a children’s book enthusiast, or a parent who enjoys a “wild rumpus” over the run-of-the-mill...

As a resident Iowa-based Book Rioter, I’m very proud of Iowa City’s UNESCO City of Literature designation. There are only 28 “cities of literature” in the...

SPOILERS AHEAD!! You were warned… For us “greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt” women, watching the second season of Fleabag felt like a breath...

For someone just getting into romance, it’s hard to know where to start. Is this the first book in a series, or the seventh? Is the...

One of my favorite guilty pleasure genres is what I like to call “Rich People Problems Books.” The massive popularity of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians series...

The best thing about a metaphorical road trip is not being tethered to the rules of an actual road trip. We all get to pick the...

Michael Sheen: Actor. Fan art enthusiast. Part-time vampire AND werewolf. Frequent statesman. Android bartender. Master of the micro-expression AND the over-the-top laugh. Charitable ambassador. Defender of...