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Love books? Love booze? Check out these book and cocktail pairings.

Lots of films, television shows, mini-series, and musicals all find their origins in books. If you are someone who wants ...

Overview of four works of bioethical fiction that use dystopian settings to explore health, disease, death and the human condition.

Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neal Stephenson This is one of those novels that you don’t want to read while you’re lying ...

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

In 1981, Cormac McCarthy, at age 48, was named one of the first MacArthur Foundation Fellows (more commonly known these ...

A few weeks ago, we rounded up our favorite books of 2013 so far, but these aren’t necessarily the books ...

In Read This, Then That, we pair new books with classics that have similar themes, structures, and stories. Vampires in ...

This is a guest post by Casey Peterson and Marisa Atkinson.  Casey is a publishing assistant at Graywolf Press in Minneapolis, ...

Everyone loves Swamplandia! author Karen Russell’s new collection of short stories. It’s basically got the “Universal Stamp of Amazing Awesome ...

Usually when I approach Buy, Borrow, Bypass I like to have a theme, a sort of thread that connects the ...

Only two titles selected this week because my love for them knows no bounds, and, frankly, I don’t want them ...

What a bookish year, eh?! Let’s break it down in easily digestible lists of two: Two Best Covers 1. The ...

Back in the saddle again, oh I’m back in the saddle again! After a reading funk that lasted longer than I’d ...

Since CLOUD ATLAS, I’ve had a hard time getting into fiction. You know how that is? You read a novel that ...