Nashville Public Library Makes “I Read Banned Books” Library Cards
The Nashville Public library has designed a limited edition library card that reads “I Read Banned Books.” The card is in response to cases of nationwide...
Dave Eggers Is Giving Away Free Banned Books to Students Denied Access
The Rapid City Area school board in South Dakota is considering destroying more than 350 copies of books ordered by teachers for use in English 12...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for May 5, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy Get This Deal $0.99 If the Shoe Fits...
The Babel Within
A few weeks ago I was invited to the book festival in Trieste, in northeast Italy, a city of divided loyalties and complicated history. At its...
Under Their Skin
The first fictional spacecraft were thrilling, vehicles for exploration and discovery, but it wasn’t long before writers realized that spaceships would also be workplaces like their...
The Iron Grip of the CFA Franc
What is wrong with Africa? Of the world’s twenty-five poorest countries, twenty-one lie south of the Sahara. Crowded streets and informal markets from Dakar to Mombasa...
Beyond the Betrayal
On the morning of August 4, 1944, everything seemed normal at Prinsengracht 263, a tall, narrow building along a canal in Amsterdam’s Jordaan neighborhood. On the...
A Fable of Agency
In The Allure of the Archives (1989), a gem of a book, the French historian Arlette Farge talks about unearthing, insofar as it’s possible, a past...
Schemes Gone Awry
When Richard Wilbur undertook in 1952 to translate Molière’s The Misanthrope, it was as compensation for his inability (despite having received a grant for the purpose)...
How Do Whispers Become Movements?
The most thrilling part of Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), John Reed’s account of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, is not the storming of...
