Confronting Hypocrisy on the Page: On Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘We Are the Weather’
The bookseller’s baby was three months old, and when the weather turned colder she realized she owned exactly one pair of pants that fit. We lamented...
Private Parts of Speech
Over the last year, little by little, I have grown suspicious of the erotics of art. It’s not just that I object to the opposition, famously...
Escaping Blackness
Thomas Chatterton Williams, who belongs to the hip-hop generation of multiculturalism and diversity, is willing to risk being a throwback in his memoir/essay Self-Portrait in Black...
Left Behind
The United States is in the throes of a colossal health crisis. In 2015 life expectancy began falling for the first time since the height of...
For the Lulz
The story of 4chan is often treated as a sort of grotesque sideshow to the growing populism of recent politics, but Dale Beran’s book It Came...
‘We Have to Win Purple States’: An Interview with Michael Bennet
Susannah Jacob: Is this country and its democracy, with all their problems, too far gone? Michael Bennet: Donald Trump ran for president arguing, “I alone can...
Lucy Ellmann’s 45-Hour Audiobook
Lucy Ellmann’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, Ducks, Newburyport, is 1,030 pages of stream of consciousness writing narrated by an Ohio housewife—not exactly the kind of book one...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 4, 2020
Daily Deals is sponsored by Hachette Audio, and Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, read by Jason Reynolds. Today’s Featured Deals $2.99Five Midnights by...
The Day the Music Spied
“Bone Music”By Maria Reva The first time Smena’s neighbor knocked on her door, she asked to borrow cloves. The woman stood in Smena’s doorway, clutching a...
15 New Books for Your Winter Mood
Winter is in full swing in the northern hemisphere, which means cold and dark abounds (we’re on the other side of it, though! It’s going to...
