Writing as Meditation with Ruth Ozeki
At the New York Times, Ruth Ozeki speaks to Ezra Klein about her latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and how she used meditation...
Tennessee School Board Bans Graphic Novel Maus Right Before Holocaust Remembrance Day
On January 10, a Tennessee school board voted 10-0 to remove the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel was the “anchor...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 27, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Jade City by Fonda Lee Get This Deal $1.99 Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn...
Here are the 5 Canada Reads Contenders and their Champions
The 15 books longlisted for Canada Reads have been narrowed down to 5 contenders, each backed by a champion to defend them. The debates will start...
Unlike Miss Havisham, I Chose To End My Marriage
On Halloween morning when I was fourteen, I got up extra early and padded into my mom’s room, where she had left her wedding dress hanging...
Genderqueer Short Stories About the Ways We Mythologize Our Identities
A nonbinary teenager on their way home from an eating -disorder treatment center who tries to convince a stranger she is not a vampire, an aspiring...
LGBTQ+ Books Quietly Pulled From Washington State Middle School
In what reads as a story we’re seeing frequently across the country, a school principal in Kent, Washington, has removed a series of books from Cedar...
How Reading Rilke Helped Me Deal With Grief
Months into the radio silence, Omi finally bid his adios. “I hope you find happiness, and I know you will,” he wrote in a goodbye email...
I Took Three Blind Dates With Books. Here’s What Happened.
I’ve been a huge fan of the “blind date with a book” idea since working in libraries, where I had to chance to create a themed...
The Great Unrequited Literary Crushes of the 1800s
Okay, so Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Charles Dickens walk into a literary salon. If this sounds like the opening of a joke,...
