Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 21, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite Get This Deal $3.99Men We Reaped...
Amanda Gorman: The Youngest Inaugural Poet in History
Amanda Gorman read her poem The Hill We Climb in front of a sea of masked Americans during Joe Biden’s Presidential Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony. She stood...
Ubuntu Comes to M1 Macs with New Linux Port
Linux enthusiasts rejoice—there’s a new Linux port for Apple’s M1 Macs that allows them to run Ubuntu! A security firm named Corellium just successfully ported Ubuntu...
Storystorm 2021 Day 21: Chana Stiefel Fills Her Idea Bank with Origin Stories
by Chana Stiefel Hello Storystormers! It’s hard to believe we’re already three weeks in. How’s it going? Are you churning out ideas like this? If not,...
Chemical Warfare’s Home Front
What is often called “the first use of weapons of mass destruction” took place on April 22, 1915, near the town of Ypres, in western Belgium....
Medicine Is Made for Men
On September 24, 2010, Michelle Pfleger, a champion equestrian, former varsity cheerleader, and freshman at Elon University in North Carolina collapsed on her way to class,...
Life in a Glass House
1. Conventional wisdom holds that the most enticing way to introduce architecture to a lay audience is through the human element that animates this most social...
A Sickness in the Air
“Are you actually a woman?” the magazine editor Chloe Schama asked Rumaan Alam a few years ago during an interview for Vogue. Her joke reflected her...
‘My Eyes Are Infamously Greedy’
Tokyo in the 1960s—shadowy, dazzling, and flooded with life—was photographed without rest. A profusion of Japanese optical companies, many still famous today, were outdoing their Western...
To Err Is Poetic
Everybody makes mistakes; only some of them become canonical. John Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” is one of the most celebrated poems in the...
