Eight Essential Books Set in the Middle of Nowhere
Every tale ever told depends in some way on isolation. No matter whether a novel is set in a hectic city or a pastoral village or...
Marie Kondo To Publish a Children’s Book!
Marie Kondo fans: check it out. Kondo will be publishing a picture book this fall called Kiki and Jax, to be illustrated by Geisel Honor–winning author/illustrator Salina Yoon....
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 22nd, 2019
Sponsored by Audible These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Invention of...
Dancehall: Raising the Voices of the Dead
In the 1970s in Jamaica, soundsystems would clash using vocalists performing over instrumental rhythms on systems built from the ground up, using an ingenious hodgepodge of...
The World Didn’t End, Things Just Got Blurry
“There and There and There and There” by Alexander Lumans All the quality blankets: gone. They hadn’t vanished in some magical boom of smoke; everyone from...
20 Translated Short Story Collections from Around the World
It is estimated that only 3 percent of books sold in the U.S. are works in translation. The question is why don’t Americans read more translated...
The Book That Defined My Teen Anxiety Turned Out to Be a Lie
Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. This time, we asked: What’s a book that changed your mind? My older...
24 Unusual Historical Romances You Absolutely Need to Read
As someone who’s been reading historical romance for nearly half my life, it’s true that many of them blur into each other. You know what I...
Definitive Ranking of English Grammar Punctuation
Each English speaker has a favorite piece of English grammar punctuation. When I asked Rioters their favorites, the interrobang, ellipsis, and semicolon were quick to come...
Where Can You Find Great YA in Translation? Six Suggestions
Recently, publisher and German-to-English translator Cat Bergman asked for recommendations on where to find YA in translation. Adding tags this time: High school lit teacher I...
