Bodies in Public
In 2014, Édouard Louis published his first book, The End of Eddy, about his traumatic childhood in northern France. He was 21. This year, he published...
The Best Book You’ve Never Read
When Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade came out in 1976, it was a Book of the Month Club selection, alongside Judith Guest’s Ordinary People. Yates—who’d achieved...
A Terribly Durable Myth
The exhibition “Jews, Money, Myth” at the Jewish Museum in London seeks both to document and to refute the stereotype of the moneyed Jew. The subject...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 11th, 2019
Sponsored by This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews, and First Second These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get...
A Stutterer’s Guide to Writing Fiction
The first time I knew my voice was different—or at least, my first memory of this difference—was in third grade, Mrs. Case’s homeroom, when I watched...
7 Books About Returning to Nature
After college, I went to work on farms, the more remote the better. I farmed in the Arctic and on a tiny sheep-filled island and in...
The Cambodian American Writers Who Are Reimagining Cambodian Literature
When I was a kid, the school librarian chased me down the hall with a book in her hand: First They Killed My Father, a memoir...
Netflix Should Adapt These Dark Horse Comics
As Disney+ begins to amp up for its streaming service release in November, Netflix has begun divesting itself of expensive Marvel shows like Daredevil, Iron Fist,...
Getting Started With Goodreads
I don’t know how I avoided it for so long. During bookish conversations, friends, colleagues, and strangers have asked whether I’m on Goodreads since its launch...
Why the GAME OF THRONES Finale was Frustrating for Disabled Fans
(Note: this article contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones series finale.) Many Game of Thrones fans were baffled by the last-minute decision to name Bran...
