Fresh Ink

Just last week, the National Book Awards were announced, and the icon, the legend LeVar Burton made it clear that hands could get thrown for Moms for Liberty. I have no choice but to stan. Truly. And naturally, the best-of lists keep trickling...

There’s never a dull moment in the Land of Books. Let’s start with the mess. After 16 years of leading the way for feminist media coverage, the site Jezebel has come to an end. The Guardian wrote about how this leaves us worse off. On...

Narrowing down this week’s list was hard. November really came out the gate swinging. Phew. The featured list below leans towards fiction, but there are a few more nonfiction titles I’d like you to know about: The Autists: Women on the...

Once you’ve loaded up your TBR with new releases, make sure to head over to Kelly Jensen’s Prison Censorship roundup, where she highlights some key reading on the current state of carceral censorship for Prison Banned Books Week (which...

As always, there’s much to discuss in the world of books. Scholastic is determined to stay on the wrong side of history, celebrity memoirs are having a moment (as discussed in last week’s new releases), and Barnes & Noble is rethinking...

After you’ve checked out the best pumpkin spice desserts cookbooks have to offer (All of them? All of them may be the best?), I’ve got a great mix of new books for you to TBR. Before we sashay our way to them, though, I wanted to...

The National Book Awards ceremony will take place soon. We’ve been theorizing on who will win, as well as looking back on the history of the awards. Reading is such a subjective experience, and I personally haven’t always jived with...

There are so many great books out today that I, again, had a hard time whittling the main list down. In YA world, there are the perfectly-timed spooky releases, like Beholder by Ryan La Sala, And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow, Before the...

With this new week comes many more books to be excited over. I only discuss six each week in-depth, but there are more, of course. For one, there’s Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad, which gives us the epic poem tailored to our...

It’s already time again for me to add to what I’m sure is an already-exploding TBR with a list of books I am genuinely excited about. I must warn you, though, that I am a seasonal girlie and can admittedly be partial to the fantastical,...

This post originally appeared on BookRiot.com There’ve been some rumblings on book blurbs lately in Book World. Vivienne Woodward explored some overused words in book blurbs, and Esquire got into how broken the system of author-written...

Originally published on BookRiot.com Though fall won’t technically start until later this month, we’ve kind of already entered fall season in the book world. This first week of September is already bringing so many exciting new releases...

Do you read our weekly Bestseller’s List? The books that sell the best every week is an interesting thing to keep track of. It’s sometimes surprising, but often not, if we’re keeping it real. Many of the books on there tend to...

This summer has been a lot. While there have been some positive highlights, it’s also had some devastating moments, and I am eagerly looking forward to having my spirit replenished with fall’s cozy offerings. Speaking of which, Goodreads...

August has been quite the month — within the book world as well as outside of it — and it’s only halfway over. Book world-wise, the 99-year-old publishing company Simon and Schuster was sold to the same company that Toys “R”...

The second week of August has got some bangers of new releases, a few of which I think are bound to make a couple of the best-of lists at the end of the year. First off, there’s beloved James McBride with a tale of working-class Black and...

This year is flying by! It’s already the first of a new month, and the new books I have for you are from popular and newer authors alike. YA darling Elizabeth Acevedo makes her adult debut with a delicately magical tale of the women of a Dominican...

As July wraps up, we have been blessed with Obama’s summer reading list, and a great selection of new book releases this week. There’s a historical fiction that looks at one teen’s experience coming of age in the Carville institiute...

This week has some of this summer’s most anticipated new releases by award-winners and even a cult favorite. Colson Whitehead revisits the crooked-est part of 1970s Harlem, while genre chameleon Silvia Moreno-Garcia mixes it up with Nazi occultists...

As the North American summer scorches on, so does this fire new book releases schedule! Nonfiction-wise, you can add When Crack Was King to your list of books that demystify major historical moments, as you can Promise, a historical fiction novel...