A New Art Festival Aims to Change the Way We Tell Stories About Grief
Good Mourning wants to give people a more functional narrative for grieving A bell from the “For Whom the Bell Toils” exhibit. (Photo by Leigh Ann Carey) “Everything...
Maryse Meijer Sketches the Figure of Cruelty in ‘Northwood’
Most books are an experience, some books act as precious objects, but occasionally—when many stars and aesthetics align—a book can be both. Maryse Meijer’s Northwood enters...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 2nd, 2019
Just for Book Riot readers: sign up for an Audible account, and get two audiobooks free! Today’s Featured Deals The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough for $1.99. Get...
Between Two Empires
Over the past two decades, Helen Evans, as curator of Byzantine art, has organized a series of stunning exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They...
The Girl is Always Eaten At the End
“The Daddy Thing” by K. C. Mead-Brewer, recommended by Electric Literature Issue №346 Jump to story INTRODUCTION BY HALIMAH MARCUS In “The Daddy Thing” by K. C. Mead-Brewer,...
Where Are All the Memoirs About Women and Work?
Memoirs by women tend to focus on either family life or trauma. We need more voices on the subject of career. It’s not as if women don’t...
‘Has Any One of Us Wept?’
Living near the border means becoming conditioned to a degree of militarization and surveillance that would cause great alarm in any other part of the country....
20 Healthy Eating Books To Inspire Your Resolutions
The most common New Year’s Resolution is to eat healthier. Defining “eat healthier” is difficult because it means different things for everyone, depending on their needs...
Dear American Publishers: Please Trust Your Audience To Appreciate Non-American English
Dear American Publishers, I understand that you have quite a large market, what with the US having a population of some 325 million people. Australia is...
The Best Bullet Journal Supplies for Readers
Bullet journals are awesome. I started my first one in January, and, while it didn’t exactly go super well, it did give me an idea of...
