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Lesser-Known Works by Alan Moore

I probably don’t need to tell you who Alan Moore is, or at least I’d like to think so. Alan ...

The Conversation We Should Be Having About J.K. Rowling’s Big Reveal

(Look, this article has Harry Potter spoilers. Not many, but there you go. Thee be warned.) Recently, J.K. Rowling gave ...

The 10 Best Beards in Literature

Almost exactly two years ago, we ran a post on 10 awesome literary mustaches. It was indeed awesome, and yet something ...

Book to the Future: 10 Authors We’ll Still Read and Revere in 100 Years

Book Riot contributors pick the 10 authors most likely to be read and revered 100 years from now.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JACK THE RIPPER by James Carnac: A Review

There’s an awful lot of hubris on display in the title of this book, which bills itself as The Autobiography ...

The New 52 and the Post-Bat Affleck Freakout

Why the New 52 and books like it should calm the apocalyptic chatter about Ben Affleck as Batman.

H.P. Lovecraft as Source Code

Today is the birthday of one H.P. Lovecraft, a pulp writer from the early part of the 20th century. There’s ...

Framing Devices in World War II Books

When I sat down to write this article, it was for my usual reason: something had annoyed me and I ...

6 Books HBO Should Turn Into Series

Six books that HBO should adapt for TV: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, and more.

The Importance of Endings

A little while ago on Twitter, Joe Hill mentioned that after years of work, he had written the very last ...