14 of the World’s Most Charming Libraries: Critical Linking, May 3, 2019
Sponsored by Audible. THERE ARE FEW THINGS IN this world more breathtaking than a grand, lovely library. Whether it’s a sprawling monument to modern architecture or a...
Rites of Spring: Does the Latest in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet Satisfy?
The first three novels of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet—Autumn, Winter, and now Spring—are constructed not as linear stories, but as literary puzzles. To figure them out...
Lynne Tillman Doesn’t Write About Art
“This doesn’t really tell you what he was like. I say what we did together, that he helped me, what I think he liked. I don’t know how to...
This Course Gives You a Graduate-Level Writing Education for Less Than $500
Editor’s note: We review ebooks, courses and tools for writers, so you can make good decisions about how to invest in your writing career. As you...
It’s Not About Sex
Every year, on December 17, sex workers from Bombay to Zagreb gather to demand that the world stop killing their colleagues. The International Day to End...
Memorizing and Memory: A Writer’s Estranged Cousins
1. MemorizingMy lines disappeared. I was in 10th grade, dressed in a blue-checked gingham dress and white tights, playing the lead in Alice and Wonderland for...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 2nd, 2019
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A Different Kind of Emergency
President Trump appears to be testing the American political system’s tolerance for soft dictatorship through the cavalier—and potentially illegal—use of presidential emergency powers. On February 15,...
A Study of Italian Fascism: Rosi’s ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’
Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli, the director’s faithful 1979 adaptation of Carlo Levi’s chronicle of his exile in the Italian South during the years of...
7 Strange and Brilliant Holocaust Novels You’ve Probably Never Even Heard About
Like many Australian Jews of my generation, I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My grandparents were survivors, the kind who fled to a faraway...
