An Imagined Possibility: The Millions Interviews Claudia Rankine
On March 19th, poet Claudia Rankine published her debut play, The White Card, which, according to Graywolf Press, poses an essential question: Can American society progress...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 28th, 2019
We have 10 copies of An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen to give away to Book Riot readers! Go here to enter for...
Ingmar Bergman, Novelist
Ingmar Bergman wrote three autobiographical novels in a remarkable creative rush between the ages of seventy-three and seventy-eight. The Best Intentions, a dramatization of his parents’...
What Happened in Hanoi?
Shortly after the success of The Art of the Deal (1987) made Donald Trump a supposed expert on negotiation, he lobbied the George H.W. Bush administration...
Known Unknowns
To the Editors: Thomas Nagel may have slightly overstated the difference between humans and nonhuman animals. Unlike humans, he writes, “animals…as far as we know, do...
Holding Starr Accountable
To the Editors: Much as I admire Sean Wilentz, I am disturbed by the disconnect with human suffering revealed by a comparison of these two statements...
The Rap Sheet of the French Police
To the Editors: The excellent article by James McAuley on the gilets jaunes movement referred to the deaths of two adolescents in 2005 that sparked widespread...
Mira Jacob’s Graphic Memoir “Good Talk” Makes Awkward Conversations Beautiful
There are many—and I mean many—incidents where I’ve stood agog at comments thrown my way; remained frozen after a backhanded (or full frontal) insult presented like...
Tim Maughan Recommends 5 Near-Future Books By Women
Does cyberpunk have a women problem? Let’s put it this way: not long ago, editor Aisling McCrea tweeted a photo of a sentence on her Kindle:...
