September 21, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen News broke Friday that the role of Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming adaptation of the Narnia books is being played by Meryl Streep. The legendary actress is just one G short of an EGOT. If you can’t get a Grammy, surely, playing God should…
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Every year, everyone gets very excited about all of the creepy books there are to read at Halloween–and justifiably so. But the rest of fall deserves love, too! I decided to dig around and look for some books that reflect all of the best things about autumn, not just Halloween, though there are a couple…
This week, Theo of Golden by Allen Levi has been bumped out of the #5 spot by the gothic romantasy novel The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig—the second book in the series that started with The Knight and the Moth. Romantasy is in an interesting spot at the moment. It continues to show…
September 18, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen Looksmaxxing got a glow-up this week as Merriam-Webster added 1,400 new words to the dictionary. If the Sunday scaries put you in crashout mode, get ready to feel very perceived. You could be forgiven for having a parasocial relationship with the dictionary; the Merriam-Webster…
Folklore and horror go together like blood and flesh. One cannot exist without the other. Stories were originally passed down by word of mouth, long before any written language existed. Fables and fairy tales are subgenres of folklore, and we all know how horrific such fairy tales can be whenever someone–adult or child–gets their comeuppance.…
Recently, we released our latest roundup of the Best Books of the Century (So Far), this time focusing on nonfiction. The list, as you might imagine for such a broad category, was huge. Our biggest yet, in fact. The original 184-title list that came from staff and contributing writers went through several rounds of eliminations…
Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparked a national conversation about police brutality against Black and Brown people when he took a knee during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” His memoir, The Perilous Fight, is out this week from Legacy Lit. Below is an excerpt about the books that changed his life and helped inspire him to speak…