Introducing Young Readers to Classics with Graphic Novels
Like many American high schoolers, I was primarily introduced to “the classics” in the classroom. We read mostly (dry, old, dead) white men: George Orwell, Charles...
50 of the Best Amazon Prime Books Available Through Prime Reading
Earlier this year, we brought you a list of the 50 Best Kindle Unlimited Books for 2019. But now that it is July it’s time to dig...
Check Out These Bookends to Add to Your Shopping List
One of the things I like to buy for my fellow bookish friends and family are book accouterments, such as bookends. So I’ve scoped out some...
Interview: Ann Dávila Cardinal On FIVE MIDNIGHTS and Puerto Rico
Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and Director of Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) where she also earned her MFA in Writing. A...
Reading Pathways: Colson Whitehead
This list of Colson Whitehead books is sponsored by Doubleday. In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The...
Book Fetish: Volume 362
This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal. Created by Book Riot, this smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to record stats,...
The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far: Critical Linking, July 18, 2019
Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Libro.fm “Yet somehow cookbooks stuck around. In...
Mark Haddon’s Latest Curious Incident Sails the High Seas
All of Mark Haddon’s fiction for adults has, until now, been rooted in contemporary realism: emotionally intelligent, yet possessed of a light touch and a sweetly...
National Conservatism: Retrofitting Trump’s GOP with a Veneer of Ideas
The Burke Institute’s conference on “National Conservatism” was a Trump-inspired counter-revolution, a conservative colloquy that aimed at creating a catechism purged of the verities of the...
Literary Doppelgängers Through the Ages
Doppelgängers ran rampart in literature long before the Internet made identity theft a daily occurrence. For the Guardian, Laurence Scott recounts the best books featuring doppelgängers,...
