Founding, Growing, and Evolving ‘The Millions’
It’s been more than a decade since C. Max Magee started The Millions, then a modest DIY website hosted on Blogspot. Since then, it’s grown to staff more...
Women and Small Publishers Dominate 2019 Man Booker International Prize Longlist
The Man Booker International Prize announced its 2019 longlist today, selecting 13 works of translated fiction from 108 entrants. The prize honors the best translated fiction...
I Want to Remember This: Featured Poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy
Our new series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem from Brenda Shaughnessy’s fifth book, The Octopus Museum. Stacked with dexterous, inventive pieces that range from...
Anthony Doerr’s ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Will Be a Netflix Limited Series
Netflix is adapting All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, into a limited TV series. Netflix and 21 Laps, the production company behind Stranger...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 13th, 2019
Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but...
Giveaway: Charlotte Holmes Series
This giveaway is sponsored by Epic Reads. In the Charlotte Holmes series, the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are destined to be rivals...
Announcing the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Longlist
Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the Man Booker International Prize has announced its 2019 longlist. The prize is awarded every...
Remember This: Love Is a Verb
“Lot” by Bryan Washington is a story about one Houston family’s attempt to deal with gentrification and loss via Flickr Issue №356 Jump to story INTRODUCTION BY AJA GABEL...
In Leila Slimani’s “Adele,” Sex is Violent, Disappointing, and Compulsive
The author on how every society forces women to lie or to stay silent about their intimate lives. Before Leila Slimani became internationally famous for her bone-freezing...
7 Books About the Dangers of (Mis)Communication
7 Books About the Dangers of (Mis)Communication Lindsay Stern, author of “The Study of Animal Languages,” on the fraught margin between what we say and what...
