Literary Testimony: Fernando Aramburu Tells the Basque Story
As it turns out, Spanish author Fernando Aramburu and I frequent the same bookstore in the Basque city of San Sebastian. Cozy and family run, the...
Death and Taxes
Did you do your taxes? In Souvankham Thammavongsa’s new fiction for The Paris Review, a woman loses her job of 15 years and enrolls in classes...
‘Ungovernable’: Featured Nonfiction from Therese Oneill
In today’s featured nonfiction, we present an excerpt from Therese Oneill’s Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent’s Guide to Raising Flawless Children, out today from Little, Brown. Publishers...
Spokane Eliminates School Librarians, Continuing Trend of Disappearing School Libraries
“The district may not value or understand what I do as a school librarian, but the students sure do. More than anything, I’m devastated for them....
Announcing the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday, and while none of them probably have an actual line about how to pronounce “Pulitzer” like...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 16th, 2019
Sponsored by Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while...
Notre Dame Is Never Lost
As any French Romantic knows, there is no love more profound, or more sacred, than that between man and a building. This was certainly true for...
“Dear Scarlet” Is a Graphical Memoir of Postpartum Depression
As someone who has written extensively about mothering and mental health in Asian America and in Asia, and the outsized impact of maternal mood disorders on...
7 Incendiary Books About Fires
My obsession with fires and burns comes from the accident that happened when I was 10, during our last winter in Korea. School had just let...
Young At Heart: 25 Children’s Books About Grandparents
Grandparents are special. They dry our tears, always have a hug, and give us unending chocolate. In the best scenarios, they support us and adore us,...
