3 on a YA Theme: Best Friends Falling in Love
This list of YA books about best friends in love is sponsored by The Fall of Crazy House. Escape is just the beginning. Twin sisters Becca and...
Browser Extension Shows Books From Online Stores Available At Your Library: Critical Linking, April 17, 2019
Sponsored by the audiobook edition of Saving Meghan by D. J. Palmer Library Extension immediately shows you if any given book is available at your local...
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...
