Tennessee Lawmaker Suggests Burning Banned Books
HB 2666/SB 2247 is headed to Tennessee governor Bill Lee’s desk for approval. The bill gives oversight to all material in school libraries to the state,...
8 Literary Friendships Told Through Letters
In 1995, I left the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle to teach English in Vietnam. Around that time, my friend and fellow bookseller Janet Brown...
Heartwarming Queer YA Books Like Netflix’s HEARTSTOPPER
Now that we’ve all had the chance to watch every single episode of Heartstopper (it can’t have just been me), we can obsess over how adorable...
10 Poetry Books by LGBTQ Asian Authors To Read Right Now
Anti-Asian hate is on the rise lately, and I’m not only talking about racist incidents. During the pandemic, many Asians were assaulted and killed, like Michelle...
The Supreme Guide to Doctor Strange Comics (Before You Enter THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS)
If you were a fan of Doctor Strange before seeing the first solo movie, you would have recognised the Ditko tribute in the visual effects and...
11 of the Best Swedish Books Available in English Translation
Scandinavian literature is famous for its crime novels and bleak landscapes. Perhaps most famously, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Laarson, translated by Reg...
Post-Cyberpunk Books You Should Add To Your TBR
Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that was born in the 1980s during the rise of the punk lifestyle and the digital revolution. Despite barely...
Why Reading Holocaust Books Written From a Jewish Perspective Matters
International Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place on January 27, but Yom HaShoah started last night, April 27. The former is for everyone to observe, no matter...
Deconstructing LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of those books that shows up on many, many children’s must-read book lists and children’s...
12 BookTok Accounts You Need to Follow in 2022
A lot has changed since Book Riot’s first post about “bookish TikTok” in 2019. Since then, BookTok has become an integral part of the Bookternet. Publishers...
