Elaine Castillo

I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out - Roxane Gay A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year - Jia Tolentino Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny - Andrew Sean Greer I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal - R.O. Kwon A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and brilliant...

Moderation is a novel that refuses to do things by halves. It is a piercing, laser-precise exploration of big tech... breathtakingly funny... and a highly charged, passionate and tender love story. A wonderful book. Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time Girlie, a thirty-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a social-media moderation centre, flagging and removing the...

Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize in Fiction and named a Top Ten Book of 2025 by The Atlantic and Slate, and a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Kirkus Reviews and more. “A love story for those who love Severance (both Ling Ma’s book and the unaffiliated Apple TV+ series)... ambitious, challenging, and brilliant.” —Elle “Castillo’s...

An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading – and our potential to become radically better readers in the world. How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our life? Of course, these beautiful...