9 Free Books to Celebrate World Book Day
Happy World Book Day! Well, officially it’s April 23, but for me and probably you, every day is World Book Day, amirite? Amazon is celebrating with...
40 of the Most Popular Translated Books on Goodreads: List List 345
This edition of List List is sponsored by Henry Holt, publisher of TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi. Available now wherever books are sold. The new novel by Pulitzer...
Long-Lost Franz Kafka Works Could Emerge After Messy Legal Battle: Critical Linking, April 19, 2019
A long-hidden trove of unpublished works by Franz Kafka could soon be revealed following a decade-long battle over his literary estate that has drawn comparisons to...
The Slow Bloom of ‘Suite for Barbara Loden’
This post was produced in partnership with Bloom, a literary site that features authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older. 1. When...
A Specter Is Haunting Xi’s China: ‘Mr. Democracy’
Enter Xu Zhangrun. A fifty-six-year-old professor of constitutional law at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, Xu is well known in Beijing as a moderate and prolific critic...
20 Years After Columbine, America Is Still Letting Its Kids Die
O n April 20, 1999, a failed bombing planned by two high school seniors at Columbine High School and turned into a shooting with assault rifles...
The Fire in Fiction
When tragedy hits, what do we read? In the wake of the Notre Dame fire in Paris, at least, the answer is 19th-century fiction: Victor Hugo’s...
Can a Myth Grow Up?: The Poet Frank Stanford at Second Sight
1.In the fall of 2018, I travelled to Fayetteville to attend the second-ever Frank Stanford Literary Festival, held in honor of a wild, Arkansas poet who’s...
Featured Book Trailer: THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT by Swati Teerdhala
Sponsored by Epic Reads. is first book in an epic heart-pounding fantasy trilogy inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mythology and is perfect for...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 18th, 2019
Sponsored by Sponsored by Simon & Schuster These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured...
