Why Knights Fought Snails In Medieval Manuscripts: Critical Linking, May 15, 2019
Sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive. “As any Game of Thrones fan knows, being a knight has its downsides. It...
Starting Over Is What’s Hard: The Millions Interviews Mary Laura Philpott
Mary Laura Philpott explores reinvention in her wonderful debut memoir-in-essays, I Miss You When I Blink. “One thing I’ve learned again and again is that starting...
Jeff Sessions’s Grave Conflict of Interest
A government official with first-hand knowledge of the matter told me that Jeff Sessions enlisted his subordinates to lie on his behalf that he did not...
Rethinking Motherhood
Mother’s Day has come and gone in the U.S., but maybe you’ve still got mothers on the brain. If that’s the case, The Rumpus has you...
Win a $200 gift card to Half Price Books!
We have a $200 gift card to Half Price Books up for grabs for one lucky Book Riot reader, courtesy of HarperCollins Christian Publishing’s Page Chaser Deals...
My Mother Once Gave Up Her Savior: Featured Poetry by Tina Chang
Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem by Tina Chang from her new book, Hybrida. “Mankind Is So Fallible” is a lovely, ambitious poem...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 14th, 2019
Sponsored by We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal and Fierce Reads These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get...
What it Takes to Win the World’s Loneliest Horse Race
From the opening pages of Rough Magic, readers understand they are entering the mind of a unique personality. First, there are the superlatives. Lara Prior-Palmer was...
Being Published in Asia Changed Everything About My Asian American Writer Experience
Last spring, I was flown to Seoul to launch the Korean edition of my debut novel, Dark Chapter. My publisher Hangilsa Press had astutely monitored the...
How William Styron Kept Me Alive
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 first...
