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We at Book Riot love the supernatural, and djinn (or jinn) – beings of smokeless fire from Arabian and Islamic mythology – are no exception. Last...

I garden in the North (zone 5), so I spend nearly half of the year thinking about gardening instead of actually gardening. I love the winter,...

Every year, I brainstorm something to sacrifice for 46 days and nights. Some years, I find something I can do. Some years, I consider both. This...

This week’s Book Fetish is sponsored by Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Camp returns to his otherworldly New Orleans for a...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by The Plus One from HarperCollins 360. “We’re finally...

1. It’s strange that the attacks on September 11 are referred to almost exclusively by their date, because it was an event so large that its...

Namwali Serpell’s debut novel, The Old Drift, is the extraordinary culmination of 19 years of work. During that period, excerpts from the book appeared in The...