The Room(s) Where It Happened: The Best Political Memoirs
As a fan of The West Wing, Red, White & Royal Blue, the 1995 movie The American President, and also as someone who has lived through...
The 10 Best Bookish Coasters
Bookish coasters do not get enough love. When you go somewhere in your home to read, a beverage of some kind is necessary, and no one...
Spooky YA Reads to Set the Right Fall Vibe
Fall can be kind of a bummer. It’s back-to-school season, which officially ends summer. There are no more lazy weekdays, and it’s time to transition out...
Read With Caution: A History of Book Curses
Whether books, as objects, have an intrinsic value irrespective of the merits of their contents is a question all of us modern readers have thought about...
Adding Jewish Books to Your Diverse Reading
It’s September, and this year, the Jewish High Holidays, or the two holidays known as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, fall in the middle of this...
What is Blackout Poetry? How to Use Erasure Verse In Your Art
Blackout poetry is for everyone, whether you see yourself as a creative person or you don’t think you have an artistic bone in your body. This...
The Timely Provocations of Matthew Gasda
“Novalis” was the nom de plume of the polymath Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an 18th-century German Romantic poet, novelist, and philosopher. Novalis is also...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 12, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Get This Deal $1.99 Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty Get This Deal $2.99...
A Queer Undocumented Chef Rebuilds His Life After Deportation
In Javier Fuentes’s touching and tender debut novel, Countries of Origin, the concept of home is complicated and politically fraught. After years of growing up undocumented...
9 Books With Fabulist Worlds That Push Boundaries
In its origins, the word “fabulous” lacked a positive connotation but simply meant “having to do with fables.” I’m no etymologist, so I don’t know how “fabulous”...
