Edd McCracken lives in Scotland, dislikes book spine breakers and loves when small words harmonise to make big ideas. Follow him on Twitter: @EddMcCracken
Among the many nuggets of fine prose in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, one stood out. Great writing gives articulation to ...
Reader, I married her. Wearing tweed. Surrounded by vintage books. Pablo Neruda was there. As was Robert Burns. A Latin ...
It seems a lot of people have a lot of love for Calvin and Hobbes. When I compiled the first ...
Alan Moore will hate this post. He seems to despise anyone tampering with his work. It is, after all, the ...
My mission is a simple but powerful one: to create the greatest list of songs with literary connections in all ...
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George Eliot’s most famous doorstop Middlemarch is getting a lot of love these days. The Paris Review featured a panorama ...
Today is Book Riot’s half-birthday–that’s right, we’re six months old today. To celebrate, we’re running our ten most popular posts ...
When it comes to reading, are you more Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter or Al Pacino in Scarface? ...
My bookmark has been one of the few constants in life over the past 13 years. Friendships, relationships, governments, tectonic ...