The Daily Alchemy of Translation
What is translation if not an intimate act between two people, away from the eyes of the world? It might be the mirth of two sisters,...
Toni Morrison in the Review
A life in literary criticism: how Review writers read and responded to the novels of Toni Morrison (1931–2019). Source : Toni Morrison in the Review
This Is Our Intimacy Now: Featured Poetry by Carmen Giménez Smith
Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem from Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith. Her poems often reflect a narrator’s childhood memory or perspective—and...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for August 6th, 2019
Sponsored by Grand Central Publishing and Hollow Kingdom. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured...
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate, Has Died at 88
Confirmed now by Vulture and the Associated Press, the iconic and vastly influential author Toni Morrison passed away this Monday night. Her publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
How to Format a Book: 10 Tips Your Editor Wants You To Know
Unless you prefer your friends to be story nerds or those who lean toward obsessive-compulsive tendencies when it comes to grammar, you shouldn’t necessarily seek to...
How to Understand the Great Haunted Houses of Literature
As award-winning horror writer Stephen Graham Jones writes, there are two types of haunted houses in fiction: Stay Away Houses and Hungry Houses. That is to...
Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror” Unspools the Chaos of the Internet
Jia Tolentino’s essays are that rare thing: they maintain the clarity of critical distance while discussing the world in which the writer is immersed. The pieces...
How Women Writers Are Reinventing Freud
A college professor of mine put it bluntly: “Marx lost, Freud won” in the implicit race to be the 20th century’s seminal influencer of cultural thought....
Local, Radical, Memorable: October Books
Like so many people reading this, I love independent bookshops. They feel like spaces separate from the world around them, little pockets of magic hiding on...
