Pride Is Nearly Here: New LGBTQ+ Picture Books
As we make our way toward The Best Day of the Year — Pride, natch — publishers are releasing a whole slew of new LGBTQ+ picture...
Books to Read for Jewish American Heritage Month
May is Jewish American Heritage Month, when we celebrate Jewish contributions to American culture, history, and society. People like Deborah Lipstadt (a historian confirmed as the...
Asia in a Global War: World War II, Asia, and Historical Fiction
Growing up in a South Asian country in the 21st century, my idea of the Second World War was of a distant, European catastrophe that had...
How and What to Read During Mental Health Challenges
If you’re a book lover struggling with depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges, sometimes your relationship to reading might be impaired. Mental health crises, whether...
8 Nonfiction Books About Censorship
If there’s one thing to love about Book Riot, it’s that contributors and editors around here are excellent at covering censorship and book banning attempts. From...
Graphic Novels About Science
Graphic novels are fun to read, but can they be used for school and learning? Yes! Graphic novels are a great supplement to any subject in...
Stick It To Me: Bookish Planner Supplies To Stick In Your Journal
I am a planner person. I really got into the hobby a few years ago, and I find the act of physically organizing my tasks and...
School Librarians are Disappearing: Here’s Why They Shouldn’t
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes a dazzling new novel where immortality is just a casting call away. Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be...
The Ecstatic Excess of Translation: The Millions Interviews Soje
Created in 2019 by Soje, a Korean-English translator and poet, chogwa is a quarterly, public-access e-zine that takes its name from the Korean word for “excess.”...
A Critic in the Court
“We can only do our job,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, “which is to interpret the...
