Books, Arts, and Culture

Don’t check, don’t check. You’ll just make yourself crazy. My thumb hovers over “Reading Challenge” in my Goodreads menu. I have to know. This battle between...

The world has answered our prayers. Or really, Book Riot has. Because if you are a fantasy fan, we have something for you. Bookwise, 2019 has...

Nyesha Stone is a Milwaukee journalist with her independent media company Carvd N Stone. But it wasn’t until a college journalism class that she finally came face-to-face...

Beverly Jenkins—or, as we call her in Romancelandia, Queen Bev—is a master at writing strong heroines and emotionally fluent heroes. When I am asked where to...

My solo trip to Toronto in October 2018 mirrored Cheryl Strayed’s Wild trip: long walks, lack of drinking water, and a suspicious man. Sure, my walks...

This is a guest post from Camille A. Collins. Camille has an MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been...

This list of YA Shakespeare retellings is sponsored by Tor Teen. A new YA standalone novel about dark faeries for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas....

This giveaway is sponsored by Courting Mr. Lincoln, the new novel by Louis Bayard from Algonquin Books. The excitement abounds for master storyteller Louis Bayard’s page-turning tale of...

Sponsored by our $100 Amazon gift card giveaway! Enter here. Now, with the aid of Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed, some...