Ocean Vuong and the Grieving World
At Time, Ocean Vuong discusses his new poetry collection, Time Is a Mother, which he wrote while mourning his mother, bearing witness to love, loss, and...
Book Challenges Quadrupled in 2021, an Unprecedented Increase
The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom is one organization that keeps track of formal book challenges and bans across the country. They have announced...
Book Riot’s Mystery Deals for April 4, 2022
Today’s edition of Mystery Daily Deals is sponsored by $1.99 The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters Get This Deal $1.99 A Time to Kill by...
Book Riot’s SFF Deals for April 4, 2022
Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Get This Deal $1.99 A...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 4, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Get This Deal $2.99 Born...
My Therapist Says the Abuse Wasn’t Love
Paradise Progress—we’ve taken to sunsets at the beach close to your house. Laughing, I’ve chased you into the waves. You’re always so patient with me, even...
7 Books That Show a Different Side of Appalachia
When I tell people where I’m from, the reaction is often one of disbelief: “There are Indian people in Appalachia?” Indeed there are, just as there...
Book Riot Will Match Your Donation to UNICEF for Aid to Ukraine
More than 1,000 Ukrainians — many of them children— have been killed and more than four million displaced as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
Who Was Joan Didion?
I own three copies of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, three of A Book of Common Prayer, two of Play It as It Lays, and an old first-edition-but-not-first-printing of The White Album that I found...
Real Life Literary Stories and Scandals That Deserve a Documentary
For most of my life, I filed documentaries away under the category of “boring” in my mental rolodex. I was under the silly assumption that documentaries...
