“Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any we...

Book 54: Exit Party, by Emily St. John Mandel Mandel’s latest is unmistakably Mandelian: leaps through place and time (and in this case, universes), a surgical approach to crafting plot in disparate ...

Heady stuff, man. Can someone pass the magic mushrooms?

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Nuance? In this economy?

ALT: No Way Samus Paulicelli Reaction

A senior executive at Microsoft believes AI systems built on the work of others will be seen as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human ...

77th National Book Awards

WTF even is LitRPG? (A lotta fun, that’s what.)

Wait, what’s all this about magic mushrooms?

Last call for limited-edition Book Riot hoodies

For five hours each year, thousands of Chicagoans take over the highway on bikes and on foot. As the event turns 25, advocates are imagining what else could change along the lakefront.

Book 50: Under the Falls by Richard Russo Russo will never not be a must-read writer for me, but it feels like he phoned this one in a little. We find out at the end he’d originally written this as a...

Book 49: For the Love of the Grind, by Sarah Hall When I first started running, there was a guy in my Saturday morning marathon training group who didn’t run races, he just did the marathon training ...

Book 48: Sisters In Yellow, by Mieko Kawakami Billed as Breaking Bad-adjacent, this long novel is about four women who open a bar in Tokyo in the late 1990s. All those things individually hit hot but...

Book 46: We Will See You Bleed, by Ron Currie Babs is back, baby! We first met Babs last year in Currie’s fantastic novel — one of my favorites of 2025 — The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. (Revi...

Hello all! My name is Jaimie Korelitz, one of Andy Fine's "Gi… Jaimie Korelitz needs your support for Supporting Andy and Jeremy through Jeremy's battle with ALS

My entry in the New Chicago Renaissance series is my favorite thing I've written this year.

Read and let read, I always say.

Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …

The backlog has librarians scrambling to find space and keep track of books in the system. Library workers say it's a ripple effect of a delivery driver shortage — and patrons have started checking ou...

Read and let read, I always say.

Book 44: 1000 Words, by Jami Attenberg Sometimes you don’t know you need a good swift kick in the ass to get your writing going until the boot print is on your bum. This book is that boot print. Not...

Book 43: The Shampoo Effect, by Jenny Jackson This is an absolutely perfect read for a long, languid summer afternoon. Beachy, for sure — but with some fascinating and astute things to say about writ...