To honor this film and its message, I assembled a list of six recently published nonfiction books about animals. These books meditate on a single creature or many creatures and our relationship to them and the world at large. Want more books about the natural world? Here’s 20 books for nature lovers and books of ecopoetry.
Nuclear energy is produced one of two ways (please forgive the oversimplification; I am but a humble technical writer with an English degree). Nuclear fission splits apart heavy atoms such as uranium to create energy. Nuclear fusion combines light atoms together, most commonly with two isotopes of hydrogen (we are, essentially, mimicking what the sun does: converting hydrogen into helium). Both of these processes release a tremendous amount of energy, but one is safer than the other (the safer being nuclear fusion)....
Book Riot is teaming up with Macmillan’s Nightfire newsletter for a chance to win a Horror Lover’s prize pack containing the following: $200 Visa gift card, The Living Dead by George Romero and Daniel Kraus, Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Slewfoot by Brom, Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. Simply sign up for the Nightfire newsletter and fill out the form here to be entered to win....
In some episodes, it’s all delightful irreverent wiener jokes (episode 4, “Dck”), while other episodes do a deep-dive into the misogynistic origins of words we use with reckless abandon (episode 3, “Btch”). But each episode is a fascinating journey through the history of some of our favorite swear words. With the addition of beloved comedians like Zainab Johnson and London Hughes, the audience is treated to dissertation-level explanations of their favorite curses by scholars who have spent their careers studying the origins of the words....
Joe Hill—the mastermind behind N0S4A2 and Locke & Key—has arrived at DC, curating his own cutting-edge horror comics pop-up! Hill House Comics will terrify readers with a smart, subversive and scary lineup of five original limited series. Hill House Comics debuted with Basketful of Heads, written by Hill and illustrated by Leomacs. The chills continued in the following months with The Low, Low Woods; The Dollhouse Family; Daphne Byrne and Plunge, from some of the biggest names in horror storytelling....
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Book 1 of this supernatural series, which includes photographs as an integral part of the story. Without giving too much away, the story is about a group of children with powers, that band together to help each other. Romance, adventure, and mystery, there’s a bit of all of that in this series. To keep reading, check out Book 2: Hollow City; Book 3: Library of Souls; Book 4: A Map of Days; and Book 5: The Conference of the Birds....
As I created this list, I made use of library subject headings. This is my usual strategy to find out about titles I may not otherwise come across. I think it’s important to discuss this particular search because one of the relevant subject headings I used was “illegal aliens.” While the Library of Congress has worked to phase out the usage of the heading, plenty of books are still categorized under the term in other libraries and databases, such as WorldCat....
Personalized Kindle Case This simple, adorable case comes in a huge variety of colors. And the design means it can fit a variety of different ereaders of similar sizes. So stamp it with your name, a favorite quote, or a threat to anyone who DARES to touch your ereader. Cat Lover Book Sleeve It has lil’ cats. Need I say more? (It’s also technically for physical books, so it can do double duty!...
After hunting through the app’s hashtag for bookish content, I’ve determined there aren’t a lot out there. Or, if there are, the search and algorithm hides them fairly well. After inserting a search term, the user can identify what kind of content they wish to search: top, users, videos, sounds, or hashtags. There were plenty of TikTok videos that were one-offs: users posted once about books, probably in the context of school, but didn’t appear to again....
In the winter of 1969, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating “one thousand male leaders” each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation’s top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women’s equality in education. Or was it? Yale Needs Women is the story of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them into the future....
Bestselling authors Natalie D. Richards and Darcy Coates bring us stories that chill us to the bone and keep us up all night reading—haunting reads perfect for Halloween! A hitched ride home in a snowstorm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster in New York Times bestseller Five Total Strangers. From USA Today bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes The Haunting of Leigh Harker, a chilling story of a quiet house on a forgotten suburban lane that hides a deadly secret… I would say that feel-good horror books can be one of two types....
1975, New York: Superheroes. Murder. Secrets. The comic book industry is struggling, but trailblazer Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, and is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. But when her colleague is found murdered, Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him and to hang on to her piece of her character, the Lynx, her job, and her life....
Bones washed up on the banks of the Thames, a dead husband in the cellar of a home in France, and the hunt for a ghost of the past—so begins The Family Remains. As the characters—narrated by a full cast—search for answers with increasing desperation, their stories converge, and each must question how far they are willing to go to uncover the truth and protect their loved ones. An intricate story about the twisted ties that bind, The Family Remains is sure to thrill and astonish listeners....
Learning was kept quite alive, thank you very much, particularly in the East (the Islamic Golden Age was from the 8th to the 14th century). While “the Middle Ages” still implies a kind of in-between, filler period, it’s a little better than the previous title. This all to say, medieval history encompasses the end of Rome’s dominance to the start of the Renaissance. And so much happened! So, here is a starter list of some excellent books to read about medieval, Middle Ages history:...
Content Warning: These plays discuss heavy topics (murder, homophobia, suicide, rape, violence, xenophobia) that may be upsetting for some readers. Please be aware and read with caution. 8 Plays About Social Justice The Mountaintop by Katori Hall The Mountaintop is a fictionalized version of the night before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In his room at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Dr. King is brought a cup of coffee by a hotel maid, Camae....
In Daevabad, djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger, blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a kingdom in the thrilling sequel to THE CITY OF BRASS. As Nahri carefully navigates life in the dangerous royal court, Ali has been exiled and must rely on the frightening abilities gifted to him by unpredictable spirits in order to survive....
I’m intrigued by comic adaptations of existing works because I imagine it’s a tricky balance bringing a long text to a graphic format. What gets interpreted into the artwork, and how does an artist choose what to focus on? What text gets cut from the new adaptation? How do the artist and adapter/writer translate complex emotion previously expressed via text in a hybrid format? I find it fascinating, especially as there are some really great books that make sense for adaptations (Long Way Down, for example) but others that I wouldn’t expect, yet love....
When contemplating the previous dearth of LGBTQ and minority representations in pop culture, I often remember a quote from The Celluloid Closet, the documentary based on Vito Russell’s groundbreaking book of the same name. Actor/writer/gaytastic icon Harvey Fierstein says, “All the reading I was given to do in school was always heterosexual, every movie I saw was heterosexual, and I had to do the translation. I had to translate it to my life rather than seeing my life....
