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News Corp – parent company of The Post – reported Tuesday that quarterly profits soared 28% and revenue ticked up 1%, beating Wall Street’s expectations. Net income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter was $86 million, compared to $67 million in the prior year period, the company said. Revenues rose to $2.11 billion, compared […]
Settle into Sunday with the stories Book Riot readers were most interested in this week. The 25 Best Dystopian Novels of All Time Do you remember your first dystopian book? My sixth grade teacher read The Giver aloud to my class over the course of a week or two, and I’ve spent the last thirty years trying […]
July 22, 2025, 3:12pm Another wild week for the makers of the popular predictive chatbots and large, generative pretrained transformer software. Here are just a couple stories about AI that came across my desk this week. Baldacci Burns Businesses The fallout around the discovery that the president was likely best friends with an accused sex […]
July 3, 2025, 12:16pm Happy July 4th eve! Even if you’re not feeling so rah-rah on the American experiment these days, there’s still a lot to celebrate tomorrow. In addition to the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the fourth is also when New York State abolished slavery in 1827 and when the first edition […]
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]
Welcome to the Saturday edition of Today in Books, where it’s all Book Riot, all the time. Here are the biggest news stories we covered this week. Meet The Freedom to Read Teen Advocacy Toolkit, a robust program and toolkit built for library workers, educators, and community organizations working with today’s young people to support and […]
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship. The guide to 56 tasks you can take to end book […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Devil Wears Prada Again And we’re not calling it faux pas. Emily Blunt spilled the tea on […]
What is the true cost of tariffs? It’s debatable — not only because of political biases, but also because it’s far from straightforward to calculate just how much of the levies consumers end up paying. Even so, it’s possible to estimate how much the price of common items could increase under President Donald Trump’s various […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. Settle into your Sunday and catch up! A Wealth of Summer Releases From the NYT Between our own list of the best beach reads […]
