Visions of Summertime Sadness and Solitude in ‘The Green Ray’
One July evening, alone in my apartment but no lonelier than usual, I started scrolling through the movies in my streaming library. I landed on Summer...
Book Riot’s SFF Deals for October 23, 2023
$1.99 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Get This Deal $1.99 Chlorine by Jade Song Get This Deal $2.99 The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem Get...
Betrayed by the City That Raised Me
The Waiting Room by Annesha Mitha I sweat through my blouse in a police station in Kolkata, not far from the house where I grew up....
Drown Out the Patriarchy by Getting “Hysterical”
Author Elissa Bassist is obsessed with the patriarchy. She once texted me, “BENNY needs to go pee, and I need to go tell him he’s a...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 23, 2023
Today’s Featured Book Deals $3.99 Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward Get This Deal $1.99 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Get This Deal $1.99 The...
All The Public Libraries Offering Free Access to Banned Books: A Comprehensive Guide
Book bans are not going away anytime soon. One of the ways that several major U.S. libraries have elected to push back is to make many,...
May The Pop Culture Be With You: 8 Titles To Get You There
I don’t know if it’s a product of being an ’80s child, my love of sociology, or the “why not both” mentality, but regardless of the...
Truth Telling: 10 Great 2023 Nonfiction Books You (Maybe) Missed
Can you handle the truth? The National Book Award for Nonfiction longlist brought several of the year’s best nonfiction books into the spotlight. But they are...
What Really Goes Bump in the Night: Recent BIPOC Horror & Thrillers to Give You Goosebumps This Fall
It’s my favorite time of the year for terrifying tales. The shadows are growing longer, and there’s a crisp edge to the air. What else is...
8 of the Most Violent, Original Endings of Classic Fairy Tales
Content Warning: rape, murder, cannibalism, torture, antisemitism, ableism, incest The original versions of fairy tales were often more like Game of Thrones than Disney: filled with...
