Books, Arts, and Culture

The bestselling confessional memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel died Tuesday from complications following metastatic breast cancer. She was 52. Her husband, Jim Freed, told the Washington Post that...

Sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, a reading log for tracking your books and reading outside your comfort zone! These deals were active as of this...

Australia is burning. This is the worst bushfire season Australia has ever seen, and it’s not finished yet. Officially, we haven’t even reached peak summer temperatures....

I once heard a joke that Zora Neale Hurston is the literary 2Pac because she continues to release material years after her death, sparking debate on...

On the second floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there is a painting by Léon Frederic called The Three Sisters. A triad of young girls—the...

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read from October to December and what a list! We’ve got fantastic memoirs, horror, literature, short...

This list of books written by or about refugees for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. TBR is Book Riot’s...

This look at awesome graphic memoirs for young readers is sponsored by Cub by Cynthia L. Copeland, new from Algonquin Young Readers. A laugh-out-loud funny and...

In 2019 I read over 100 books. A personal record. A record I’ve never come close to before. This happened for a lot of reasons. One...