Books, Arts, and Culture

Here’s a specially curated list of terrific March books out in the UK. Get reading! Lanny by Max Porter (Faber) Hands down my most anticipated book...

This Riot Recommendation listing your favorite powerful YA books about Muslim Americans is sponsored by TheNOVL. In a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and...

This giveaway is sponsored by Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, now in paperback from Algonquin Books. Now in paperback, acclaimed author Jonathan Evison’s Lawn Boy introduces us...

Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. Some Michigan libraries already stock anti-overdose medication and have...

On March 2, former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker abruptly resigned from a new Justice Department position only two weeks into the job—after he learned that...

Amy Hempel’s Sing To It is her newest short story collection and her first in over a decade. Each piece is precisely honed and crafted with...

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...

According to the Office of Management and Budget, in 2015, Americans spent 9.78 billion hours on federal paperwork. The Treasury Department, including the Internal Revenue Service,...

On January 14, the eighth anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, I joined the crowds passing through metal detectors to gather in Tunis’s Avenue Habib Bourguiba. A...