Tressie McMillan Cottom Is a Public Intellectual
For Guernica, Roxane Gay interviews Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new essay collection, Thick. The two writers talk taking black women seriously, self-protection, and, as...
LifeWay Christian Resources to Close All 170 Stores in 2019
All 170 LifeWay Christian Stores in the U.S. will close in 2019. The Southern Baptist affiliate company announced in January that it intended to close a...
What Science Can Learn from Constipated Dogs
“Gulliver’s Travels” shows us how modern science could benefit from a little satire The first time I picked up Gulliver’s Travels, I was working in a protein...
We Did Everything and Knew Nothing: The Millions Interviews Susan Choi
“All fiction writers write out of their deepest, most intimate personal experiences, even if some of them try to deny it or disguise it,” Susan Choi...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 21st, 2019
Sponsored by MEM by Bethany Morrow. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals How...
NJ Lawmakers Introduce Resolution to Remove Huckleberry Finn from School Curricula
A non-binding resolution has been introduced in New Jersey’s state Assembly asking for the removal of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from school curricula. Controversy...
2019 Whiting Awards Winners Announced
The 10 winners of the 34th annual Whiting Awards were named last night in a ceremony featuring a keynote by author Adam Johnson, winner of the...
The Chernobyl Syndrome
On the night of April 25, 1986, during a planned maintenance shutdown at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, one of the four reactors overheated...
Presenting the Kidlit These Days Podcast!
Make some space in your podcast listening schedule, because Book Riot has a new kidlit podcast hosted by me, New York Times bestselling author Karina Yan Glaser,...
How Do You Even Get Started Writing a Book?
The Blunt Instrument, our advice column for writers, on taking your first steps towards publication The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers. If you...
