10 Bright Books for the Darkest Night of the Year
Today is the winter solstice, which means it’s the darkest day of the year. If you are like me, your reaction to this will be to...
RIP To Reading Alice Walker. Long Live THE COLOR PURPLE.
In 2013, I was still fairly new to book reviewing. When I requested Alice Walker’s book, The Cushion in the Road, for review, I expected to...
The Best Fantasy Short Stories and Where to Find Them
We live in a new golden age of speculative short fiction, and fantasy short stories are part of that. The hardest part is often knowing where...
YA Adaptation Showdown, Day 5: Readers’ Choice!
Welcome to Day 5 of Book Riot’s first official YA Adaptation Showdown. This week-long event invites members of the YA community to share their thoughts on...
7 Satisfying Slime Books for Kids and Adults Written By Pro Slimers
Slime books are the next stage of the slime craze that began taking YouTube and Instagram by storm back in 2016. Young people en masse revived...
The Best LGBTQ Graphic Novels of 2018: List List #331
The List List is sponsored by MIRA Books and Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard. Sean Suh is done with killing. After three years in a psychiatric prison, he’s...
Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2018: Critical Linking, December 21, 2018
Sponsored by MIRA Books and Hunting Annabelle by Wendy Heard. Our Word of the Year for 2018 is justice. It was a top lookup throughout the year...
A Year in Reading: Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers
The self is singular; the self is communal. What a paradox, especially in this harrowing year, filled with systemic horrors and the threat of more to...
GitHub reflections: Was 2018 the year of open source?
The end of the year means time for reflection and building your New Year’s resolutions! Even GitHub’s State of the Octoverse reveals some trends of 2018....
No more gradients for your ML models with Nevergrad, an open source Python toolkit from Facebook
Fine-tuning machine learning models takes a lot of trial and error. Now, thanks to a recently open sourced toolkit from Facebook, developers can rely on a...
