The Best New Book Releases Out May 21, 2024
Season three of Bridgerton is out, and, while I was turned off by something a character did towards the end of the first season and haven’t...
10 New LGBTQ Books Out This Week To Add To Your Pride TBR
Every week, I round up the most exciting LGBTQ new releases this week for the Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn (Sapphic Fiction) I’m a big...
10 New Audiobooks for Spring 2024
AudioFile recommends 10 excellent new audiobooks for spring, including masterful new works from Hanif Abdurraqib, Percival Everett, and more. Whether you’re looking for a memoir told...
The Ultimate Updated Guide to YA Short Stories
In 2020, following several conversations with YA readers, authors, librarians, and educators, it became clear that one of the challenges of short stories in young adult...
7 Novels Set on the Internet
I used to think there was nothing more embarrassing than to write about the internet. It wasn’t literary, I thought, and to give it a place...
Shze-Hui Tjoa Is a Detective Seeking Clues to Her Own Life
Shze-Hui Tjoa’s The Story Game is an unflinching investigation into herself—represented in the text as ‘Hui’—and her lost memories from a dark place called ‘Room’ during...
Let’s Get Messy: Literary Beefs and Rivalries
Since late March, I’ve been following a rap beef that situated Drake against Future, Metro Boomin, and Kendrick Lamar. While it seemed standard at first, it...
MPA Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Pirate Sites’ Use of Internet Intermediaries
After more than a decade at the MPA, including his tenure as Chief of Global Content Protection while heading anti-piracy coalition ACE, Jan van Voorn recently...
Viking IPTV Defendant Avoids Immediate Prison But Faces Millions in Damages
Last December, Swedish anti-piracy group Rattighetsalliansen (Rights Alliance) reported that a local prosecutor had filed an indictment against a man suspected of being behind Viking IPTV....
The Most Unhinged Fictional Characters Ever Written
I do not know if it’s me, or if it’s “the times,” but when I recently perused my library checkout history, there were an undue number...
