This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. After pausing its annual Comic-Con event for book lovers following COVID, ReedPop is bringing back its BookCon event next month. BookCon combines pop culture and books under one roof. This year’s event, being held at the Javitz Center
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Late last week, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) overhauled its website’s home page. The change took place sometime between Wednesday, February 25, and Friday, February 27. The refresh is the perfect encapsulation of how the Trump Vance administration is hellbent on destroying an agency dedicated to sharing and protecting truth, facts, and
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Every month, there’s a flood of new sci-fi and fantasy books coming out clamoring for a spot on your TBR. But with so many competing for your attention, it’s easy to lose track of the ones you’re most excited about. And often, you just end up hearing about the titles with the biggest marketing budgets.
There have never been more new queer books coming out every week—but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to find. When I put together my round-up of new queer releases each month for Our Queerest Shelves, it requires a ton of research, including sifting through early reviews for any mentions of queerness, because that’s not always
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Who the Hell Is Howard Bloom? Howard Bloom is one of those wildly eclectic thinkers who refuses to be pinned down — he’s part science theorist, part cultural provocateur, and part cosmic storyteller. Born in Buffalo in 1943, Bloom started off as a science-obsessed kid, digging into microbiology and cosmology long before most people could
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Friday rapid-fire wrap up time. Here are the links we didn’t quite get to, but are still worth browsing: First look at Sally Field in Remarkably Bright Creatures [People] The Most Popular Books on Goodreads
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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. A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Book Riot’s Kelly Jensen reports
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Within moments of the gas hitting the air, people in the vicinity, including the police force, started transforming in mind-boggling ways—melting, evaporating, elongating—an abomination of a scene. The majority of the people caught within this gas brutally died, but the rest were forever changed into what the public dubbed “Bang Babies.” The Big Bang challenges
Audiobook listeners in the US and UK can now see the most popular titles on Spotify via the platform’s new Audiobooks Charts. The charts, which are updated weekly, are free for all users and include an overall Top Audiobooks US list along with dedicated lists for popular genres, including romance, mystery-thriller, self-help, sci-fi and fantasy,
Even though it’s barely over a year old, DC Comics‘s Absolute Universe has had its share of shocking moments. One of the best occurred in Absolute Evil #1 from October 2025, which introduced this universe’s take on Oliver Queen a.k.a. Green Arrow, only to kill him off a few pages later. The scene upset readers
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