Like No One They’d Ever Seen
What if the finest, funniest, craziest, sanest, most cheerfully depressing Korean-American novel was also one of the first? Practically everything about Younghill Kang’s brash modernist comic...
Time to Deliver Justice to Delivery Workers
Among the many new phrases that have suddenly become common currency—“six feet,” “social distancing,” “flatten the curve”—“essential worker” is perhaps the most significant. The term acknowledges...
Resistance Is Futile
On or about December 2011, human character changed. That month the pope sent his first message on Twitter, which had just rolled out a substantial redesign...
Psychoanalysis in Time of Plague
I don’t like patients in my ear on headphones—I don’t use visual technology; it’s a Lacanian thing—I like listening to them in a room as two...
A Lost Tale from Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett is best known for children’s classics like The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy, but a new anthology of lost stories reveals her...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 13, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $3.99I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Get This Deal $No One Can...
God Said Let There Be Light & I Said No Thanks
God Said Let There Be Light & I Said No Thanks I have a headache, though with the SAD lamp’s magic glow and all, I receive...
Emily St. John Mandel Did Not Predict the Pandemic
I’ve seen more than one person wonder on Twitter lately: how is Emily St. John Mandel doing this month? It’s a fair question—she wrote an extremely...
What is the Great American Novel?
What is the Great American Novel? Its existence as a singular volume is surely a myth, but what is the concept of the Great American Novel?...
18 Ways to Keep Track of Your Favorite Book Quotes and Ideas
“The memory sometimes is so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again so tyrannic, so beyond control!...
