What Is High Availability (HA)? Why Your Business Needs to Plan for It
Obviously, nobody plans for downtime. But problems are inevitable, and if you don’t have a plan in place to deal with them immediately and automatically, you’re going...
How to Hide Notifications While Sharing Your Screen in a Video Call
If you’re sharing your screen during a video conference, it’s important to make sure no notifications appear. This can prevent the accidental leaking of confidential information...
Who Gets to Profit off Black Culture?
Ladee Hubbard’s sophomore novel, The Rib King, may take place a hundred years ago but it touches on just about every pressing socio-cultural issue in the...
“Minari” Is an Intensely American Film—Why Do We Still See It as Foreign?
Minari, the gorgeous semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, opens with Monica Yi’s first glimpse of the wide, empty landscape that is her...
How Do Icon Packs Work on iPhone?
iPhone icon packs are everywhere. You can buy them on websites like Gumroad, and you’ll even see advertisements for them on Instagram. People have been sharing...
Manga (and Comics) Cinnamon Roll Smackdown
We were hanging around the virtual Book Riot water cooler the other day and someone mentioned they’d love to see a post featuring literary cinnamon rolls....
Let’s Hear It For the Brainy Girls: Romance Novels Featuring Aspiring Women
This list of romance novels feature aspiring women was originally published in our romance newsletter, Kissing Books. Sign up for it here to get romance news,...
Behind The Scenes: A Day in the Life of An Associate Editor
This Behind the Scenes highlighting a day in the life of an associate editor was originally published as an exclusive for Book Riot Insiders. Sign up...
How I Learned To Be Less Productive and Feel OK About It
It all started with Tiffany Dufu’s Drop the Ball. The subtitle is “Achieving More by Doing Less,” and there is not a subject on Earth I...
Pandemic Advice From Literature (And Diaries) of the Past
Wash your hands to the tune of Happy Birthday, learn how to bake, sit outside for ten minutes every day: we’ve all heard the same pandemic...
