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Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in June

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

The ANNA KARENINA Trailer Rundown

Editor’s note: If you want to watch the trailer before Kit breaks it down for you, check it out here. ...

If Don Draper Blurbed Books

Mad Men’s fifth season may be over, but that doesn’t mean that the conversation around the show has stopped. My ...

“Best use of QR codes EVER.”

This photo has been making the rounds over the last few days, appearing first on Reddit (as far as I ...

“Suicide is Preferable”: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen

It is pathologically delicious to suspect that one author would hate another and then find out that they indeed did. ...

“The Greatest of Superficial Novelists”: Henry James on Charles Dickens

It’s hard to remember that even the most canonical authors had (and still have) severe critics. Check out this cutting ...

The Death of Bram Stoker and the Birth of Horror

The deaths of famous people always seem more open-ended than our own. Whereas our deaths may be suffused with mystery, ...

The Scarlet Letter of Snacks

People of New England and Owings Mills where Elizabeth Bastos bidest, which is not technically in New England, but under ...

Russell Hoban’s Frances the Badger

Russell Hoban’s “Frances The Badger” #kidlit series was a staple of my childhood. My mom read Bedtime for Frances to ...

A is for Awesome: Re-reading THE SCARLET LETTER

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was required reading for high school freshman English. When I read it then, “A” was ...