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What westerns, cartoons, and racist rich kids taught me about representation in media I n the third grade, my homeroom class watched a terrible western-style clip involving...

At the tail end of summer, my mom suffered a bad fall and fractured her leg. It was a devastating injury which rendered her immobilized for...

As a lifelong, unrepentant book nerd, I shouldn’t be surprised to find myself here—poised to become a high school English teacher. I believe that most lifelong...

There something about the holidays the get me in the mood to read (or watch) some Harry Potter. Perhaps it is because I’ll never quite get...

The home I grew up in had a large, diverse garden in the backyard, and the kitchen was the center of my home. You had to...

As we prepare for 2019 and say goodbye to 2018, there’s little time left for us to get our fill of the boatload of book-to-movie (and...

During my first year in New York, I learned that an old theater, not far from my apartment, showed It’s a Wonderful Life at Christmastime. I...

When Orson Welles was an infant, Booth Tarkington had already memorialized the disappearance of that old-fashioned world in a 1918 novel, The Magnificent Ambersons—which Welles would film...

Merry Christmas to the Riot readers who celebrate. We wish you a festive and bookish day. We’ll be over here in our pillow forts, consuming mass...

Download Eric’s Book of Beasts by David Starr Jordan free now. in the link to download below you will be able to download and get the...