Cristina Arreola

No, summer doesn't "officially" begin in the Northern Hemisphere until the equinox on June 21, but everyone knows that the true start of summer is Memorial Day Weekend, when most of the country kicks off a season of warm-weather lounging, swimming,…

You've Got Mail gets a cheesy (in a good way) successor in the rom-com everyone will be talking about next spring, Tweet Cute by Emma Lord, a story filled with all the tropes your heart can handle, including my personal favorite, an…

When Kali Fajardo-Anstine learned that Julia Alvarez had endorsed her debut short story collection, Sabrina & Corina, her knees buckled. A few days later, when she discovered that Sandra Cisneros had also praised the book, she wept. "I always was a…

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. In May, Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng recommended Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Follow along with the book club on Bustle and join the…

An unmistakable shimmer of optimism runs through the darkness of Juliet Escoria's Juliet The Maniac, a raw exploration of mental illness, survival, and healing. Told through a clever mix of patient logs, letters, newspaper clippings, notes,…

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. In April, Little Fires Everywhere author Celeste Ng recommends Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Follow along with the book club on Bustle and join the…

It's finally May, and that means you're probably starting to dream of park days, beach vacations, and other opportunities for reading in the sunshine. No matter what kind of book you prefer to take with you on those lazy days of summer, the titles…

It's been more than 30 since the first novel hit bookstores, but the beloved baby-sitters of Stoneybrook, Connecticut are finally making their audiobook debut. That's right, the Baby-Sitters Club audiobooks are coming out this year. On Tuesday…

There is a line in María Gainza's Optic Nerve that perfectly describes how I felt after reading it. The narrator is not talking about a book, but about a work of art, The Stormy Sea, painted by Gustave Courbet: "Every time I look at it, something…

On Monday afternoon, Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy announced the Pulitzer Prize winners for 2019 at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. The winners receive $15,000 along with the prestigious honor and the…

If you're a Will Trent or Sara Linton fan, you're in luck this summer: Karin Slaughter's beloved hero and heroine are back in her latest thriller, The Last Widow, out on Aug. 20, 2019. You may have to wait until August to get your hands on the book,…

In May, Elizabeth Acevedo — the National Book Award- and Printz Award-winning author of The Poet X — will release her new book, With the Fire on High, about high school senior Emoni, who must balance her passion for cooking with her responsibilities…

In her 2016 young adult novel Wrecked, author Maria Padian delivered an incisive examination of sexual assault, memory, and judgment through the story of an on-campus sexual assault. In her new book, How To Build A Heart, Padian visits the world of…

Abby Wambach. Hope Solo. Alex Morgan. Megan Rapinoe. Carli Lloyd. Chances are, you're far more familiar with the names, past and present, of the U.S. women's national soccer team than those of U.S. men's team, for good reason. They're a far more…

If you — like me — made a resolution back in January to read more books this year, you are probably feeling the heat right about now. I haven't kept up with my rigorous resolution (10 books a month — what was I thinking?) but that doesn't mean that…

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. In April, Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim recommends Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter edited…

In Bustle’s series The Book I’ll Never Forget, celebrities, influencers, changemakers, and more reveal the one book they’ve read that’s made a lasting impact on them, and why. For Advice Haul, Bustle's beauty issue, Drybar founder Alli Webb shares…

"When you lose someone, you often worry about forgetting them," author Sarah Dessen tells Bustle. "There aren't going to be any more memories, so you cling ever tighter the ones you have." Grief and memory fuel her fourteenth novel, The Rest of the…

Each month, the Bustle Book Club asks an author to recommend a book they think everyone should read. For March, Seduction author Karina Longworth recommended Hollywood's Eve by Lili Anolik Follow along with the book club on Bustle and join the…