Nikki VanRy

Thanks to the "Raining Poetry" project from a local nonprofit Mass Poetry, hidden poetry now appears on Boston sidewalks whenever it rains.

Here's the highlight reel from #HamOfThrones, the Hamilton + Game of Thrones mashup you've always wanted.

The 100 best sci-fi fantasy novels by female authors!

For those of us who love seeing poetry often and beautifully, there’s a whole world of Instagram poets making fascinating art ...

I was a bit standoffish when it first came to adult coloring books. I could understand the idea of them, ...

At Book Riot, we’ve already covered our absolute hands-down favorite sentences in literature. Honestly, go read that post first. There’s some ...

I’ve heard too many people call prologues all types of literary trash. They’re pretentious, they say. Unneeded filler. Annoying. When a prologue ...

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

We adore a good literary TED Talk around here on the Riot. 2015 gave us fascinating talks about poetry in ...

Patrick Rothfuss is the best-selling fantasy author of The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man’s Fear, and his latest, The Slow ...