The Year of the Amazon?
In September, a group of environmental activists and artists, alarmed by fires raging out of control in the Amazon rainforest, and by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s...
I’m Supposed to Talk to You About Death for Homework
“Bubbly and Nugget” from Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump Ms. Bev asked if our parents loved us. She was crying again. We always said...
Jane Austen’s Whisper Networks
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when a woman’s economic well-being depends on the men around her, it pays to listen to what other women...
“Ah, That Was Easy!” — A Quick, Simple Trick to Make Your Quotes Stand Out
As an editor, one of the first pieces of feedback I give to writers is to vary word choice and sentence structure. But there’s one place...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 22, 2020
Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while...
Gyms Now Offering Perks for Working Out With an Apple Watch
The plan is that soon you’ll be able to waltz into a gym, connect your Apple Watch to a treadmill, and earn cash back or a...
14th-Century Steambath Discovered in Mexico City
Archaeologists in Mexico City have uncovered a pre-Hispanic steambath dating back to the 14th century. Its location in the city’s historic district confirms the whereabouts of...
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts’ Casual Queerness Is Fantastic
Dreamworks’ Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is all about a group of (mostly) average kids making their way around a strange post-apocalyptic land. It’s been...
Oprah Winfrey’s Controversial Book Club Pick, AMERICAN DIRT, Casts a Long Shadow
On Tuesday, January 21, Oprah announced that her next book club pick would be none other than the highly anticipated and highly controversial American Dirt by...
Why I Went Birdwatching at a Particle Physics Lab
We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster—the second in a sequence of Fermilab’s particle accelerators—and then onto the 2-mile ring road that traces...
