Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 15th, 2019
Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but...
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced
The National Book Critics Circle announced its 2019 Award Winners, and the winners of three additional prizes: the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, John Leonard Prize, and Nona Balakian Citation...
Painting the Beyond
Hilma af Klint was a skilled painter of portraits and landscapes who in the first decades of the twentieth century began making hundreds of strange pictures...
7 Novels About Families That Break the Mold
Maura Roosevelt, great-granddaughter of FDR, recommends books on atypical family arrangements Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash I grew up in a loud and busy home, where...
Famous Women Authors Share Their Daily Writing Routines
Advice on setting a schedule from Edith Wharton, Zadie Smith, and Hilary Mantel This piece is excerpted from Daily Rituals: Women at Work, a collection of the...
Here Are the Books to Mention—And Avoid—On Your Dating Profile
What books do most people think are red flags? Twitter found out this week Relationships are hard. Whether they are with romantic partners or friends, it’s no...
Quiz: Which Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor from Harry Potter Are You?
Defense Against the Dark Arts is where, pun intended, so much of the magic happens in Harry Potter. It is almost unarguably the most exciting class...
What We Learned About Good Omens at SXSW 2019
The Good Omens experience at SXSW 2019 in Austin was a dream. I attended a party where there were sword swallowers, prophecies, and a replica of...
To The Stars: 5 Books Where Women in Space Take Center Stage
If you’re like me, you can pull space exploration- and astronomy-related moments out of your childhood memories, still replete with wonder: of Halley’s Comet shooting by,...
Why I’m Not Reading About WWII Anymore
I love reading historical fiction; I always have. Growing up, I was fed a healthy diet of Little House on the Prairie, the Dear America Series, and...
