A Specter Is Haunting Xi’s China: ‘Mr. Democracy’
Enter Xu Zhangrun. A fifty-six-year-old professor of constitutional law at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, Xu is well known in Beijing as a moderate and prolific critic...
20 Years After Columbine, America Is Still Letting Its Kids Die
O n April 20, 1999, a failed bombing planned by two high school seniors at Columbine High School and turned into a shooting with assault rifles...
The Fire in Fiction
When tragedy hits, what do we read? In the wake of the Notre Dame fire in Paris, at least, the answer is 19th-century fiction: Victor Hugo’s...
Can a Myth Grow Up?: The Poet Frank Stanford at Second Sight
1.In the fall of 2018, I travelled to Fayetteville to attend the second-ever Frank Stanford Literary Festival, held in honor of a wild, Arkansas poet who’s...
Featured Book Trailer: THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT by Swati Teerdhala
Sponsored by Epic Reads. is first book in an epic heart-pounding fantasy trilogy inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mythology and is perfect for...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 18th, 2019
Sponsored by Sponsored by Simon & Schuster These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured...
‘A Painter Not Human’
In October 1608, the fractious painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio made a daring escape from a Maltese prison and set sail for the Sicilian port of...
20 Inspiring Writing Podcasts to Subscribe to Right Now
In the last decade, podcasts have exploded in worldwide popularity. From celebrities like Dax Shepard to your 15-year-old nephew, everyone seems to have a podcast. Still,...
Medicine in the Gray Zone
To the Editors: I was delighted to see that The New York Review and none other than the supremely talented Dr. Jerome Groopman took the time...
Feasting on Erasmus
To the Editors: For book writers today, a common occupational hazard is the cannibalizing book review. After spending years researching and writing a book, the author...
