A Year in Reading: Andrew Martin
In June, my partner and I moved from Boston back to Brooklyn, where we last lived, separately, almost a decade ago. The cost of moving and...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for December 18th, 2019
Sponsored by Amazon Publishing and Nine Elms. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured...
A Year in Reading: Mike Isaac
Most of my 2019 has been spent in a blur of hating words—my own. Editing a 140,000-word transcript that would eventually become a book forced me...
This Woman Created Her Own Writing Conference — Here’s How You Can, Too
In 2018, I launched the Belize Writers Conference (BWC). It was a dream of mine to start a writing conference and introduce fellow writers to my...
The Long, Dark History of Russia’s Murder, Inc.
According Le Monde, citing French intelligence, the GRU has for several years maintained a rear base of operations in the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps....
Love Is a Yellow Hotel in Yugoslavia
“Return Trips”by Alice Adams Some years ago I spent a hot and mostly miserable summer in an ugly yellow hotel on the steep and thickly wooded,...
7 of the Most Vicious Book Reviews, Ranked
Many critics love reading mean book reviews, even if they don’t like to write them. This was a finding from my book Inside the Critics’ Circle wherein...
“Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung” Reclaims the Voices of Women from Myth
In Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, Nina MacLaughlin spins anew the tapestry of tales that makes up Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Her retelling gives voice to more than 30...
3 Comics About Antihero ‘Ships
What is it about bad guys in love that captivates fans’ hearts? Is it watching two flawed people learn to care for each other? Or maybe...
14 Romance Books Matched With Hogwarts Houses
Harry Potter is a phenomenon in the pop culture world. It has stayed with us for a very long time and continues to be there for...
