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December 19, 2024, 1:28pm Image via The Guardian and AP Drones over New Jersey isn’t the name of a terrible new pop punk band, it’s something that’s really happening in The Kingdom of Springsteen. There isn’t a lot of concrete information or explanation about these night visitors. I would guess that this is less likely
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For every book-to-TV deal that gets announced, only a few actually get made. Of those few, many adaptations are tonally wrong (The Three-Body Problem) or simply not as good as the book version (The Lady in the Lake). Or sometimes I can’t bear to watch an adaptation because I love the book too much, even
New York City’s three public library systems—the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Public Library—have crunched some numbers and announced the most checked out books of 2024. To give you an idea of the scope of these libraries, the New York Public Library alone has over 90 locations throughout the
December 18, 2024, 2:29pm That’s right, reader. A new film is putting a sly spin on the patron saint of emo kids. Even before it made the enduring mold for a certain sort of sad boy—never forget that Dan “Gossip Girl” Humphrey was a mega-Werther fan—Goethe’s romantic tragedy rocked the literary world on its publication
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 2024 NBCC Awards Longlist: Fiction With the PEN Award, the NBCC often has the most unexpected end of
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me wonder—what were the poets themselves reading this year? So I asked some of my favorite contemporary poets about the poems that left the
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 It’s time. 2025 is two weeks away, 2024 new releases have
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1899, German-born British bookseller and collector Bernard Quaritch, who in 40 years of collecting acquired six separate copies of the Gutenberg Bible, dies. We know you don’t want to read every best books of 2024 list, so Emily Temple read them all for you. |
Whether you’re in need of some gifting inspiration or a little treat for yourself this giving season, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the 2024 Book Riot hub for all things holiday gifting! Bookmark this page and check for weekly updates now through the holidays (and even a little into the new year).
The end of the year is approaching, the universe is expanding, and the internet is updating—right now, it is mostly updating its Best Of lists. Therefore, per Literary Hub tradition, I now present to you the Ultimate List, otherwise known as the List of Lists—in which I read all the Best Of lists and count which
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As the season of “Best Books of 2024” draws to a close, that only means one thing: time to talk about the biggest books of 2025! Goodreads has put together a list of the most anticipated books of
December 16, 2024, 2:25pm For the next few months in New York City, book nerds with a penchant for esoterica can enjoy a special treat. The Grolier Club, “America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts,” is currently hosting a (free!) exhibition built of books that do not, technically, exist.
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Liz Pelletier Named Publishers Weekly Person of the Year Pelletier had an excellent case to be named PW’s
In 2024, we were very demure, very mindful. We watched the Olympics, but mostly for the muffins. And Raygun. And the pommel horse guy. We played Connections. We held space for the lyrics of “Defying Gravity.” We held space for the ending of Challengers. We had to keep throwing out food, including all those cucumbers
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“Looking back on it, we did used to say, it’s like a divorce,” Paul McCartney reflected on the Beatles’ breakup, now a marathon heading into its fifth year. “It really was like that, but four fellas trying to divorce instead of a man and a woman. And then you get four sets of lawyers instead