A Year in Reading: Jenn Shapland
Books that transformed the way I think Fox and I by Catherine Raven The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka Proverbs of a She-Dandy by...
A Year in Reading: Vauhini Vara
At the beginning of this year, we were living in Madrid and reliant, for our English-language reading, on what everyone referred to as the American Library...
A Year in Reading: Emily Wilson
One of the big themes of my reading life this year has been the multiple ways a single story can be told—how one version or other...
A Year in Reading: 2023
Welcome to the 19th installment of The Millions’ annual Year in Reading series! YIR gathers together some of today’s most exciting writers, thinkers, and tastemakers to...
A Childhood That Defies Gravity
The Art of Levitation by Marcus Stewart Children hopped along the logs arranged as stepping-stones in the playground; Lewis stood next to them and stared at...
The Genesis of a Fictional City
Eskor David Johnson’s Pay As You Go is set in an imagined city, Polis, one that takes elements from New York to Chicago to London and...
5 Tips for Giving Better Bookish Gifts
Every holiday season for the last 10 years, my Book Riot Podcast co-host Jeff O’Neal and I have answered listener requests for holiday gift book recommendations. It’s fun,...
Authors and Bookish Accounts to Follow on Bluesky
Using X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — can be a tense experience. Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter, and arguably before...
Retro Comic Rewind: The Purple Claw
Some comics go down in history as masterful examples of the craft and are beloved by multiple generations. And others end up at the landfill. In...
Gifts For Readers 2023: The Best Bookish Gifts Under $30
Several years ago, I found myself scrolling through the annual deluge of gift posts that make their way across websites this time of year and was...
