What are E-Sports, and Why do People Watch Them?
Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock In the next few years, competitive gaming will become a multi-billion dollar industry, and it could even come to the 2024 Paris Olympics. But what...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 23rd, 2019
Sponsored by Amazon Publishing These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Call Me...
What Rod Rosenstein Knew When He Helped Trump Fire Comey
In May 2017, then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein agreed to assist President Trump in an effort to fire James Comey as FBI director despite Rosenstein’s...
Judith Kerr Has Died
I’m writing this through tears. Judith Kerr, one of the great legends of children’s books has passed away, and I want to tell you about her....
Fernando Flores Recommends 5 Books by Women
Sometimes absurdist fiction is the only way to reflect on absurd times. The trippy alternate-universe Texas of Fernando Flores’s The Tears of the Trufflepig is strange,...
“The Crazy Bunch” Is a Poetry Collection About a 1990s Crew
When I heard the New York City College of Technology planned to host a Willie Perdomo reading, I knew I had to attend. Perdomo is the...
Emily Dickinson Isn’t Difficult—She’s Just Misunderstood
If you had told me when I was in grad school that one day, I would be holding hands with a woman in a movie theater...
Daily Deals: A $50 2DS, a $58 Google Home Mini 2-Pack, a $20 Logitech Marathon, and More
Logitech, Nintendo, Google As Memorial Day draws closer, the deals get more and more intense. Right now, our favorite websites are selling premium products at a...
Yikes! We Need More Books in Translation
On average, there are only 421 new fiction translations published each year in the United States, according to the recent Vulture article by Chad Post called...
Crime Fiction as Self-Care
Kicking back with a story about murder, a couple of cookies, and a cup of tea is a rather odd indulgence. But luckily for me, it’s...
