‘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...
A Future Without Fossil Fuels?
At what point does a new technology cause an existing industry to start losing significant value? This may turn out to be the most important economic...
A Last Look
To the Editors: Joseph Leo Koerner is mistaken when he writes: “So famous were Proust’s reflections on Vermeer that the 1921 exhibition included The View of...
Painful Choices
To the Editors: In her comprehensive and thoughtful essay about the opioid (and other drug) problems afflicting Americans, Marcia Angell seems unable to avoid blaming the...
