Democrats and the Written Word
For The New Yorker, Jill Lepore brings a critical eye to the memoirs of 2020’s Democratic presidential candidates, comparing the lyricism and romance of Pete Buttigieg’s...
Fairfield Porter: Artist, Writer, Heretic
In the early 1950s, during the high noon of Abstract Expressionism, the painter Willem de Kooning did something heretical. He started incorporating the recognizable figures of...
The Lure of Western Europe
Americans usually remember the end of communism as the result of a binary battle between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, while most Europeans tend to see...
True Mirages
Karen Russell’s new collection, Orange World, contains eight stories whose weirdness rests largely in their premises. “Bog Girl: A Romance” is a love story about a...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 23rd, 2019
Sponsored by Amazon Publishing These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Call Me...
What Rod Rosenstein Knew When He Helped Trump Fire Comey
In May 2017, then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein agreed to assist President Trump in an effort to fire James Comey as FBI director despite Rosenstein’s...
Judith Kerr Has Died
I’m writing this through tears. Judith Kerr, one of the great legends of children’s books has passed away, and I want to tell you about her....
Fernando Flores Recommends 5 Books by Women
Sometimes absurdist fiction is the only way to reflect on absurd times. The trippy alternate-universe Texas of Fernando Flores’s The Tears of the Trufflepig is strange,...
“The Crazy Bunch” Is a Poetry Collection About a 1990s Crew
When I heard the New York City College of Technology planned to host a Willie Perdomo reading, I knew I had to attend. Perdomo is the...
Emily Dickinson Isn’t Difficult—She’s Just Misunderstood
If you had told me when I was in grad school that one day, I would be holding hands with a woman in a movie theater...
