Can a Myth Grow Up?: The Poet Frank Stanford at Second Sight
1.In the fall of 2018, I travelled to Fayetteville to attend the second-ever Frank Stanford Literary Festival, held in honor of a wild, Arkansas poet who’s...
Featured Book Trailer: THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT by Swati Teerdhala
Sponsored by Epic Reads. is first book in an epic heart-pounding fantasy trilogy inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mythology and is perfect for...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 18th, 2019
Sponsored by Sponsored by Simon & Schuster These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured...
‘A Painter Not Human’
In October 1608, the fractious painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio made a daring escape from a Maltese prison and set sail for the Sicilian port of...
20 Inspiring Writing Podcasts to Subscribe to Right Now
In the last decade, podcasts have exploded in worldwide popularity. From celebrities like Dax Shepard to your 15-year-old nephew, everyone seems to have a podcast. Still,...
Medicine in the Gray Zone
To the Editors: I was delighted to see that The New York Review and none other than the supremely talented Dr. Jerome Groopman took the time...
Feasting on Erasmus
To the Editors: For book writers today, a common occupational hazard is the cannibalizing book review. After spending years researching and writing a book, the author...
A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine
Carmilla, by the Irish Gothic writer J. Sheridan LeFanu, first appeared serialized in the London magazine The Dark Blue over 1871–72, a quarter-century before Dracula. In...
Only Women’s Solidarity Can End Women’s Suffering
A woman barricades the entrance of her house with a rope. Fierce-looking women draped in blood-red garments attempt to come into the compound, but the woman...
30 Books By Writers Of Color Redefining the Term “All-American”
What comes to mind when someone is described as “all-American”? They’re probably physically healthy, maybe blonde, and definitely white. This image isn’t neutral: By associating the...
