Best Translated Book Awards Names 2019 Finalists
The Best Translated Books Awards today named its 2019 finalists for fiction and poetry. The award, founded by Three Percent at the University of Rochester, comes...
Mariama Bâ, Grande Dame of African Literature
The latest addition to Emma Garman’s excellent column, “Feminize Your Canon,” in the Paris Review features Mariama Bâ, one of the first black African women to...
Hit Send: Making the Case for Following Up as a Freelance Writer
As a freelance writer, sometimes it feels like a losing battle to get work. You send dozens of email pitches to prospective clients but hear nothing...
This New Translation of a Russian Epic Restores What Censors Stole
Vasily Grossman’s novel Stalingrad, newly translated from the Russian by husband and wife Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and publishing in June from New York Review Books,...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 15th, 2019
Sponsored by Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re...
Alexander Chee Recommends “Days of Being Mild” by Xuan Juliana Wang
“Days of Being Mild” by Xuan Juliana Wang It takes real skill to speed down the packed streets of the Zhongguancun district of Beijing, but the...
Why Do Most Americans Believe in Conspiracy Theories?
Conspiracies have long been a point of fascination in America, but lately it feels like you can’t spend a day on the internet without encountering the...
Millennial Narcissism Is Baby Boomer Narcissism, But Better
“The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” Tom Wolfe’s very long and very middling 1976 cover story for New York Magazine, might be the most...
Find The Perfect Vintage Removable Wallpaper for Book and Comic Lovers
One of the biggest trends right now in home decorating is vintage removable wallpaper. This isn’t the kind of wallpaper we’ve all come to cringe about...
Michelle Motivates Barry
We at Book Riot enjoy speculating (privately, for the most part) on what might cause a book such as Barack Obama’s presidential memoir to be delayed....
