How White Are Your Comp Titles?
The publishing industry is roughly 86% white. Yet comparative titles, or “book comps,” are whiter still, the L.A. Review of Books has found, arguing that this...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 23rd, 2019
Sponsored by our Unusual Suspects giveaway of $100 to the bookstore of your choice! Today’s Featured Deals Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things...
The Disillusionist
We live in a golden age of reissues. Every publishing season seems to bring fresh editions from a vital but ignored past: say, Clarice Lispector, who...
The Light In This Apartment is Better Without You In It
Catherine Lacey recommends ‘Territory of Light’ by Yūko Tsushima Flynn Kittie on Flickr Issue №349 Jump to story INTRODUCTION BY CATHERINE LACEY Purchase the book. Seeking shelter is rarely an...
What It Takes to Write, and Translate, Some of China’s Most Famous Stories
Yu Hua and his translator discuss “The April 3rd Incident,” which revisits the writer’s early work Photo by Marcin Wichary I n 1984, a Chinese dentist named Yu...
Why Do I Have to Choose Between Being a Writer and Being a Mother?
We need narratives about women artists that don’t position family and craft as mutually exclusive I was standing at a housewarming party with a random group...
Giveaway: BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA OF THE YEAR Vol. 1-4
This giveaway is sponsored by the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year series. In Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4, award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel...
5 Graphic Novels and Memoirs for People Who Say They Don’t Like Graphic Novels and Memoirs
When my husband, Aaron, and I were first dating, he talked me into going to see the midnight premier of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. We...
Best New Books in The Folio Society’s Collection
Two years ago, I wrote a roundup of some of the best titles from The Folio Society’s Christmas Collection. Although the holidays are over, TFS introduced...
Tributes to Mary Oliver: A Roundup of Reactions to the Poet’s Death
The poet Mary Oliver died on Thursday at age 83. Reactions to her passing were swift and widespread, with notable names taking to social media to memorialize...
