Fresh Ink

Somehow, some way, summer is in like five minutes. I don’t like how fast this year feels to be going, but I do like a curated seasonal list, and the summer ones have already started rolling in. The Atlantic and The LA Times have already shared...

The best releases for each month have been hard to narrow down this year, and May is no different. This month, as with other, recent months, I’ve gathered a list of highly recommended books by Book Riot writers who regularly cover the...

Here’s a great documentary about students fighting book bans for a beginning-of-the-week pick-me-up. And because we can’t have nice things, here’s the latest on how trash Neil Gaiman is. As for new books, there’s the...

I really appreciate this list of poetry books to read with the youngins for National Poetry Month—which is this month, if you were unaware. For more April-specific bookishness, there’s this list of the various book club picks for the month....

As we step into a new season, it feels like we’re stepping into a new season of books, too. A lot of the publications that dabble in bookishness are releasing their own versions of the best books of spring—there’s New York Times‘,...

I noticed a mini pattern this week while I was looking for new releases and started to wonder if there was some mid-March witchy memo I didn’t get. There is everything from witchy nonfiction (The Story of Witches: Witchcraft, Magic and the...

Somehow, we are already in the third month of the year. February both felt like it dragged and went by too quickly. What is time, amirite? Temporal musings aside, March has so many books to be excited about. While the featured books have been...

When was the last time you sent someone a physical letter? I can’t remember the last time I did, but I have received a few holiday cards over the years, and they’re something I always look forward to. With everything becoming digital—even...

If you’re completing our Read Harder Challenge this year, Danika Ellis has some great recs that will also have you reading more Black authors. Meanwhile, Kelly Jensen has the latest on book bans—something that has greatly increased in frequency...

The best books coming out in in February include everything from literary fiction to romantasy and sci-fi. They may be future blockbusters, predetermined to move units, or well-written books by talented authors with smaller budgets. Some are by...

If you’re looking to boost your “read” pile for the year, or even get yourself out of a reading slump, K.W. Colyard has compiled a dope list of short books that include everything from the story of an author contending with her...

What’s new in the world of books? Well, apparently romance books stores. Last year, The New York Times’s Alexandra Alter wrote about how around 20 of them have popped up around the country since just 2020. Now, Boston is the latest...

I love it when my very specific interests meet, and that is exactly what happened with this roundup of items to use to make your bookish space like a Wes Anderson movie. And I know I’m also going to be adding a few books to my TBR from this...

Y’all, 2025 is already on some BS. Fable, an app that I had heard about a while ago (and low-key forgot about until now) has gone viral for something super cringey. They decided to “roast” the reading choices of their users, and...

New York City remains one of the best places I’ve ever lived, and it’s partially because I felt so at home there as a reader. Take, for instance, how, once I’d moved away from campus and had to commute a bit, I joined the many...

Man, we’re out here losing recipes. We’ve lost yet another literary giant—someone who, as Rebecca Joines Schinsky points out, was so iconic that she became famous, even as a poet. Kelly Jensen wrote up a great summary of her life here,...

The last few weeks have been interesting for new book releases. Fall is a big season in the book world, and the last few Tuesdays have had some very buzzy books come out by bestselling, award-winning authors, as well as some highly anticipated debut...

It’s a good day. NPR has released their huge, interactive list of their Books We Love, and we are geeking out. As usual, readers can sort the mega list by what they’re feeling, and are able to choose from options like “eye-opening...

There is just a teensy bit of mess in Booklandia—the streets (i.e. The New York Times and ProPublica) are saying that John Grisham didn’t properly attribute criminal justice reporter Pamela Colloff for his latest book. Jamie Canavés wrote...

I’m still in the self-soothing stage following last week, and I invite you to join me. There are cutesy cooking romances to get in the mood for Thanksgiving and diverse graphic novels to escape into. But, if you’d rather have pleasant...