Fund open source developers with GitHub Sponsors
Do you support any content creators on a service like Patreon or Ko-fi? How about supporting developers? Announced on May 23, 2019, GitHub Sponsors offers a...
Mood Ring Manis Are About to Blow Up Your Instagram
We consider ourselves mani experts, so we’re usually unfazed by new waves of mani art (I mean, is there really anything we haven’t seen at this point?)....
The Lure of Western Europe
Americans usually remember the end of communism as the result of a binary battle between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, while most Europeans tend to see...
How to Delete Contacts From Your iPhone
Deleting contacts from your iPhone is easy, and there are several ways to do it. This article outlines the best way to delete a single...
True Mirages
Karen Russell’s new collection, Orange World, contains eight stories whose weirdness rests largely in their premises. “Bog Girl: A Romance” is a love story about a...
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,...
