‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ Turns 50
On average, Neda Ulaby of NPR writes, someone in the world buys a copy of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar every 30 seconds. The classic...
Best Translated Book Awards Spotlight: The Millions Interviews Linda Coverdale
Linda Coverdale’s translation of Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel Slave Old Man won this year’s Best Translated Books Award in fiction. Shortly after the prize was awarded, Coverdale...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 13th, 2019
Sponsored by Reckless, the Shattered Chronicles, episode 1 – get it now for only $2.99 These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire...
A Resonant Centenary for Strauss at the Vienna State Opera
In Die Frau ohne Schatten, the conductor Thielemann finds a work fundamentally consonant with his conservative values—both in the late Romantic tonalities of Strauss’s music and in...
How Stonewall Liberated Young Adult Literature
Two weeks before the Stonewall Riots, the first major young adult book to explicitly feature homosexuality hit the shelves. At the time, a book for teens...
Maria Kuznetsova Thinks You Should Go Ahead and Be Weird
In our monthly series Can Writing Be Taught? we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This time,...
Anne Shirley Was the Best Friend a Queer Brown Boy Could Have
The following essay is adapted from C.E. Gatchalian’s memoir Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man. It was one noon hour...
All of the DC Ink and Zoom Comics Announced So Far
This year at BookCon, DC announced another batch of titles for their YA imprint, DC Ink. The new books look gorgeous, and I’m super excited by...
20 Books for People Without a Father
Since my father died in March, I have been dreading Father’s Day. Not the holiday itself, which has been, for me, about my husband for the...
How to Make Book Flowers
Reading friends, you might consider it blasphemy to cut up the pages of your old books, and I get it. But what if there were a...
