reading pathways

START HERE: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors (A Book Riot Kickstarter Project)

There are so many great authors and fantastic books out there that it is impossible to know them all. There’s ...

Genre Kryptonite: New York City Snob Stories

Cristina Alger, author of The Darlings, owes me some sleep. Her thrilling debut novel about a privileged New York City ...

Reading Pathways: Ray Bradbury

I have been working on this post on and off for a few months now. I could never decide how ...

Five Books To Look Forward To This Fall

Even with a huge slate of top-tier authors (hello, John Irving, Hilary Mantel, and Toni Morrison!) publishing this spring and ...

Would You Give This Author A Second Chance?

I recently learned a valuable literary lesson: Neal Stephenson is not for the faint of heart. And by “faint of ...

Old Writer, New Book: Hostage by Elie Wiesel

In 2005, I traveled to Mexico City a few times. On one of those trips, I spent the afternoon roaming ...

READING PATHWAYS: Philip Roth, Volume I: The Social Novels

I’m cheating with this one. To my mind, there are two main thoroughfares through Roth’s work: the big social novels ...

Reading Pathways: Zadie Smith

For whatever reason, Zadie Smith is a lightning rod for sanctimony. She gets picked on so much more than most ...

Reading Pathways: Margaret Atwood

  Margaret Atwood. Maggie. Companion of the Order of Canada. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Bad-ass bitch of ...

The Confidence Index: Tykwer and Wachowskis’ CLOUD ATLAS

  David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas is one of those books you love all the more because the worlds it ...