12 Books That Bridge the Natural and Human Worlds
In an era of environmental catastrophe, it’s easy to forget that we are the environment too. The world affected by climate change is not some distant...
How To Alert Your School Board to Right-Wing Bad Actors: Book Censorship News, September 1, 2023
The scores of individual parents and collective parent/parental advocate groups working to speak up against censorship continues to grow day by day. It is encouraging, especially...
10 Comics Like Starfield to Fuel Your Obsession
Bethesda Softwork’s new role-playing game Starfield is getting all of the buzz right now. Known for epic, open-world games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, this...
Bookish Is a Bad Thing? A History of The Word “Bookish”
If you’re involved in the literary world at all, you’ve probably heard the word “bookish” somewhere. You might have even been called it once or twice...
Our Blue Ribbon List of Books for BLUEY Fans of All Ages
There is no shame in admitting you are a Bluey fan. Personally, I have been grounded twice by our kids for watching Bluey without them. I...
Finding Home in a New City Through History and Urban Fantasy
I grew up reading British literature and had always harbored a desire to live in London for a while. Last year, after a casual discussion with...
September 2023 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations
Welcome to Book Riot’s September 2023 Horoscopes and Book Recommendations! Thanks for joining us for another journey through the galaxy. It’s a new month, a new...
The Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for Fall 2023
What even is time? I had a couple conversations this past year, some of them surrounding the publication of my non-chronologically structured novel We Do What...
Growing Up in a Chinese Restaurant in Atlantic City
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a feast of a book. It’s about hunger—the hungers of the body, of addiction, of history. Brilliant,...
I Am a Star in a Galaxy of Grandmothers
Study of a supernova at the beach The tulle of my grandmother’s dress like a comet tail, a bouquet of algae tonguing my feet. I track...
