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We’re turning some kind of corner in the ongoing conversation about if, where, and how to deal with the reality that AI-generated text has already made its way into mainstream publishing. Here’s a look at the biggest recent headlines: 🤖 Welcome to the uncanny valley. In the most meta (but not Meta™️) of experiments, Mother

Martin Scorsese is the Academy-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Emmy Award-winning director behind many critically acclaimed films over the past several decades. But we have yet to see Scorsese direct a horror movie. He’s dipped a toe into the genre with films like Shutter Island, but now he’s taking the plunge with What Happens at

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Every month, the What’s Up in YA newsletter has a roundup of the best YA graphic novels and comics out that month. I’ve combined all of these comics into a collection: Young Adult Graphic Novels & Comics of 2026. Anyone can browse Book Riot collections and click the covers to find the publisher’s description, the

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6. Superman For the longest time, people complained that Superman is just too powerful to be featured in a good story. If he’s perfectly good and perfectly strong, what could possibly challenge him? And if nothing can challenge him, where’s the tension? Those complaints clearly came from people who don’t know much about Superman, because

From The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats to Frederick by Leo Lionni to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrated by Lois Ehlert, there are lots of beloved classic picture books that use collage to create beautiful illustrations. And with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the more than 70 other books he created using a distinct

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The trailer for the adaptation of the mega-bestselling 2018 psychological thriller Verity by Colleen Hoover just dropped yesterday. Already, it’s amassed more than 5 million views on YouTube, and is ranked #6 in the movies category for the site’s trending chart. I watched the trailer and have thoughts: First things first: I have to admit

Doctor Doom and Darth Vader Despite their shared penchant for armor and dark arts, Doctor Victor Von Doom would see little of himself in Darth Vader. After all, Vader allowed himself to be Grand Moff Tarkin’s lackey, an unthinkable move for a man who once became a god and found it beneath him. For his

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If you want to get a sense of the history of LGBTQ children’s literature, the Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children’s Book Special Collection in the Mechanics’ Institute in San Francisco is a great place to start. It’s made up of 200+ LGBTQ children’s books published between 1969 and 2023. Library manager Myles Cooper spoke with me about

There’s some very exciting news for podcast lovers and people who miss having a president who read: Obama is hosting a new book podcast. It will be about books that have greatly influenced him and society. It debuts on Audible September 24, 2026. This week’s new releases are just as exciting. Firstly, there are a

Empyrean series fans still have a long time to wait until book four: it doesn’t have a title or release date yet. But in the meantime, there are a couple of related new releases to tide them over. Threshing Day, a collection of short stories set in the same world, comes out September 29, 2026. And

“Great books have always helped me figure out who I am and what I believe. The six books featured in this series have stayed with me throughout my life, and each one has something to teach us about the human experience. For this podcast, I invited some friends to explore why they resonate, how they

As I promised last month, I started July by reading The Way Disabled People Love Each Other by my favourite poet, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. I’m not usually a big poetry reader, but I love theirs, and I spent most of the book anticipating rereading it. As expected, with the release of the Heartstopper Forever movie,

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Every week, we put together a list of the bestselling books of the week, according to all the biggest lists. For all the books that have appeared in this roundup this summer, check out our collection of the Bestselling Books of Summer 2026. Sign up for All Access to create your own collections! Anyone can