Selfies from Hell
In Martin Amis’s novel Other People: A Mystery Story (1981), a woman with amnesia comes across the works of Jane Austen. “The same thing happened in...
More Than Accomplices
One morning in the late spring of 1996, while reporting on the aftermath of the conflict in Bosnia, I was filming in a churchyard in Pale,...
India’s Streaming Auteurs
My brief love affair with Bollywood—India’s mainstream Hindi-language cinema—began when I was ten, in 1994, with the release of a film called Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!...
Dostoevsky and His Demons
How should one narrate the life of a great writer? Joseph Frank’s five-volume biography of Dostoevsky, now supplemented by his Lectures on Dostoevsky, revivified the form...
The Landscapes Inside Us
It is a little-known fact that limpets are brilliant navigators. Renowned for their ability to hold fast, they are surprisingly mobile. When submerged by the incoming...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 10, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $3.99 Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh Get This Deal $3.99 The Ocean at...
I Got an Artificial Intelligence to Write My Novel
According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, among writers “influence always proceeds by misinterpretation.” In The Anxiety of Influence, Bloom argues that writers willfully ignore and...
7 Writing Residencies That Are Family-Friendly
After a year of lockdown, writing residencies are back. Residencies are a good way to dedicate time to your craft or make connections with those who...
How TV Shows Use Books as Props: From SCHITT’S CREEK to MAD MEN
If you’ve ever paused your favorite show just to Google whatever book a character is reading, then you’ve probably wondered: How do TV shows use books...
