Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 22, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Get This Deal $2.99My Invented Country: A Memoir...
When Slaves Fled to Mexico
There has long been a fascination with the plight of enslaved Blacks who ran away from southern slaveholders in the decades before the Civil War. Powerful...
Remembrance of Things Past
When I was a little boy, not more than ten or eleven, I would label photographs. In our apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn—I lived...
Why Did They Vanish?
If you visit an even moderately old museum display on human evolution, or open anything but the latest textbooks on the subject, you’ll encounter cave-dwelling, mammoth-hunting...
The Self Unmoored
Susan Taubes’s novel Divorcing begins with the death of its main character. Sophie Blind wakes up in an apartment by the Hudson River, still groggy from...
Return of the Nameless Man
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces,” says the narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel, The Sympathizer, by way...
A Dance to the Music of Death
The inhabitants of the planet Tlön, in Jorge Luis Borges’s story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” have a radically different understanding of the universe than we Earthlings...
Light in the Palazzo
In 1968 the Roman aristocrat Alessandro Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, applied for a permit to repair the roof of his family’s private museum, a nineteenth-century industrial...
Planning an Aryan Paradise
1. So horrendous were the manifold atrocities perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and his followers that decades passed before scholars began to address the Nazis’ use of...
2021 International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the International Booker Prize has announced its 2021 shortlist. The prize is awarded every year to...
