Instagram Captions for When You’ve Cut Your Own Hair
Desperate times call for desperate measures. If you’ve gotten so fed up with your increasingly shaggy and unkempt hair while you’ve been socially distancing that you’ve...
Trey’s Rage: An African’s Education in Being Black in America
When my family first immigrated to the US from Somalia, we were placed by a refugee agency in Buffalo, New York, in one of the city’s...
‘Ghosts of Sugar Land’: A Journey of Loss
Mark, the subject of Bassam Tariq’s Ghosts of Sugar Land, was an outsider in high school, being one of the only black students in his class,...
4 Working-Class Women Fight For Success in Hyper-Competitive Seoul
In Frances Cha’s debut If I Had Your Face, four women reckon with their past and present circumstances as they make their way through the wilds...
7 Books About Living Between Languages
Nothing defines the immigrant, mixed-race, or otherwise multicultural experience better than having to navigate between two or more languages. It’s not just about what languages you...
“The Little Engine That Could” Is a Capitalist Nightmare
I would try in my cheeriest hushed voice to suggest other books and DVDs at the library, but what my son Theo wanted, from about ages...
Before and After She Fell Down the Stairs
“Moments Earlier”by Kate Doyle Kelly lands in a heap when she falls down the stairs—she falls half a flight at least, hits the entryway tile. Daniel...
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Read Ursula Le Guin’s “Earthsea” Books
It didn’t start with George Floyd, but his death was the shock that brought thousands of heroic Black people from out of pandemic lockdown to fight...
Celebrated Children’s Book Illustrator Graces Two Magazines
Kadir Nelson is a multi-award winning author and illustrator for children’s books. His 2019 release, The Undefeated, won the prestigious 2020 Caldecott Award, as well as...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 18, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas...
