Ten Ways to Look at the Color Black
1.One of the most poignant of all passages in English literature occurs in The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, serially published between the years...
Don McCullin’s Art of War
There are other dangers than gunfire for the war photographer, almost more than for the war correspondent: the temptations of angry partisanship or aestheticization of horror....
An Indonesian Poet Uses Queer Catholic Saints to Create an Alternative Gospel
Norman Erikson Pasaribu on being a multiple outsider and searching for liberation in “Sergius Seeks Bacchus” Photo by Sara Rampazzo on Unsplash Norman Erikson Pasaribu was born and...
‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ Turns 50
Fifty years after the publication of Ursula K. Le Guin‘s classic work of science fiction The Left Hand of Darkness, and less than one after the author’s death, Charlie Jane...
Charlie Jane Anders Recommends 5 Books That Aren’t By Men
The author of “The City in the Middle of the Night” is here to help you read more women A s the co-founder of sci-fi and fantasy...
Panel Mania: ‘Tyler Cross: Angola’ by Fabien Nury and Brüno
In this excerpt from Tyler Cross: Angola, Fabien Nury and Brüno’s 1940s criminal antihero finds himself imprisoned in Louisiana’s notoriously brutal Angola State Prison after an...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 14th, 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...
Watch the New AVENGERS: ENDGAME Trailer
With just over a month left for the release of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel have dropped a brand new post-apocalyptic trailer today which is specifically shot to...
Amazon Pulls Two Books Claiming “Cures” for Autism
Content warning: The books that were pulled from Amazon contain descriptions of disturbing, non-medically sanctioned “treatments” for children. Amazon removed two books claiming to provide “cures”...
Do Corporations Like Amazon and Foxconn Need Public Assistance?
With the Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal still drawing skepticism, Amazon’s HQ2 plan for Long Island City canceled, a national conversation about corporate subsidies is underway—at a moment...
