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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Tom Crewe on Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons, Ron Charles on Adam Ross’ Playworld, Joanna Scutts...
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- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: Bosun’s Bag
By Tom Cunliffe, Adlard Coles, $ 35 One could read the subtitle of Tom Cunliffe’s new Bosun’s Bag—A Treasury of Practical Wisdom for the...
sailmagazine.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 9, 2024
Today’s Featured Book DealsIn Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book DealsPrevious Daily Deals...
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- 30+ days ago
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The Golden Era of Radio Drama – And the Women who Helped Create it - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Victoria Purman My novel THE RADIO HOUR is set in a momentous year in Australian history: 1956. It was the year the Olympics were staged...
booksbywomen.org
- 30+ days ago
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Playing with Paradox: ‘The Sympathizer’
Whether or not you’ve attended one of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s book events, his books make clear their author’s...
altaonline.com
- 30+ days ago
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Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction
Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British...
boingboing.net
- 30+ days ago
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Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America’s Criminal Justice System
“I promise if you hear Of me dead anywhere near A cop, then that cop killed me.” –Jericho Brown *Hours before I was arrested, I...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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Historical Crime Novels Featuring Agatha Christie Vibes
Fiona Davis recommends works that "incorporate Christie’s signature moves and...keep you on the edge for the entire ride" I grew up reading Agatha...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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There’s a Library of Dreams at the Grolier Club
This mind-bending exhibition of books showcases titles so rare you won’t find them anywhere else in the world. What if I told you that...
observer.com
- 30+ days ago
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5 books to read this January that will take you on adventures real and imagined
When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team....
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- 30+ days ago
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The Best Memoirs, Nonfiction Science, and Food Writing of the Last Year
For this week’s nonfiction rundown, we’re looking at what other publications have on their lists. There are the best memoirs of 2024 by Esquire,...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?
It started with a phone call from my godfather. A few days after Superstorm Sandy, he called me from Brooklyn after he’d spent all...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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It’s All in the Cards: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels Involving Tarot
Tarot has captivated storytellers, mystics, and everyday people for centuries, with the earliest known tarot decks dating back to 15th-century Italy....
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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2 Big Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Lists
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Lit Hub’s Most...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Inside the Royal Society of Literature’s civil war
Amid allegations of censorship, secrecy and elitism, the 300-year-old institution is tearing itself apart. Editor’s note: This piece was originally...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review – Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Authors: Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet (Verso, 2020)Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet are established professors and urbanists who have significantly...
spacing.ca
- 30+ days ago
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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 5 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the...
dailynews.com
- 30+ days ago
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12 Picture Books That Celebrate Girl Power | Brightly
“Girl power,” the empowering phrase celebrating girls’ strength, confidence, and limitless potential to shape their futures, wasn’t popular until the...
readbrightly.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Hybrid Heroines of “Bollywood Chick Lit”
Material consumption and marriage have different meanings for South Asian American women, and those meanings should shape the way we read Desi “chick...
jstor.org
- 30+ days ago
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Circling Back To Reading Dark Mystery & Thrillers
Between 2016 and the pandemic, I absolutely became a person who began to seek comfort in my entertainment, including reading. Then I moved into only...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Free Speech for TikTok?
As the Supreme Court decides whether to let the US ban a hugely popular social media platform, it can either learn from its earlier mistakes...
nybooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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‘Martyr!’ author Kaveh Akbar will speak at DMA’s Arts and Letters Live
The Tehran-born writer is a finalist for the National Book Award. Kaveh Akbar, a National Book Award finalist, will take part in the Arts and...
dallasnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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Did the Tories create modern Britain?
A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions. When I was growing up in the 1950s, the hierarchical structures...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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Sebastian Mallaby on Finance’s Intellectual Adventure Stories
The world might love to hate financiers, but the worlds of hedge funds, venture capital, and central banking can be filled with thrilling ideas and...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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Alan Hollinghurst’s Elegy for Britain
At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away. It is hard to think...
newrepublic.com
- 30+ days ago
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No One Told These Ink-Stained Dreamers to Make Books. They Just Did.
I have been making books my entire life.In grade school, my teacher assigned a series of reports on the provinces of Canada. After writing...
christianitytoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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Caroline Calloway Was the Butt of the Joke. Now, She's Self-Publishing an Advice Book.
In classic Caroline Calloway fashion, the writer and notorious scammer’s latest literary endeavor, Elizabeth Wurtzel and Caroline Calloway’s Guide to...
interviewmagazine.com
- 30+ days ago
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Your Winter Reading List for Exploring Parks and U.S. History
Winter is a blissful time to curl up with a good book. Alan Spears, NPCA’s senior director of cultural resources, offers his latest picks —...
npca.org
- 30+ days ago
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The Best Mystery & Suspense Audiobooks of 2024, recommended by AudioFile Editors
Mysteries and crime novels make for great listening as audiobooks, as suspense about what's going to happen next keeps you completely engaged. For...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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Jenna Bush Hager is starting a publishing imprint! See all the upcoming books
Jenna is "having the best time ," she says. Jenna Bush Hager is turning the page on an exciting new chapter in her career as a...
today.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: "In the Long Run," by Jonathan White | Foreign Affairs
White offers a learned and thought-provoking reflection on the travails of modern democracy....
foreignaffairs.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere (Book Review)
Guy de la Bédoyère’s The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome deals with the decline of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which...
worldhistory.org
- 30+ days ago
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'A light has gone out of this world': Stratford novelist Andrew Pyper remembered by friends, colleagues
Andrew Pyper, a bestselling novelist who grew up in Stratford, is being remembered as a devoted dad, loving husband, selfless friend and a master of...
stratfordbeaconherald.com
- 30+ days ago
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Popes, Nobel Prizes and surprise sequels: Euronews Culture's guide to the books of 2025
Whether you want to start or can't stop reading there's sure to be a title that tickles your fancy in our carefully curated guide to...
euronews.com
- 30+ days ago
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5 Great Spy Novels Set in Small Towns
Some time s the greatest espionage adventures happen on the smallest possible stage. When we think of espionage adventures, it’s easy to imagine...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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Translating ‘The Sympathizer’ into a Visual Language
Adapting a book into a film or television series is about making choices. What needs to happen to turn words into visual drama? What gets...
altaonline.com
- 30+ days ago
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How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published
Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston,...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: Kenitz's debut novel transforms 'The Perfect Home' into a gut-roiling thriller
Dawn and Wyatt Decker are a reality TV couple renovating homes on-screen and dealing with fertility problems off-screen. Their story and their marriage seem like...
apnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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Hidden women of history: the Australian children’s author who captured the bush – before May Gibbs’ Australiana empire
May Gibbs is a household name in Australia. Her most famous book, Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, published in 1918, has never been out of print....
theconversation.com
- 30+ days ago
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Night owl or early bird? Here's how your inner clock impacts your health
Did the holidays mess up your sleep patterns? Maybe you stayed up late ringing in the new year, or changed time zones while traveling. Science...
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- 30+ days ago
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How Sherlock Holmes Broke Copyright Law
Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have happened decades ago. Edmund Wilson...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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New Releases: January 2025
So Not My Type by Dana Hawkins (January 5th) Sophie Black has clawed her way up from coffee runs to project manager at a top...
lgbtqreads.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Clubs Are Trending
There are some interesting updates for the new year In the world of book clubs. There’s a new snail mail book club based out...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Our Most Anticipated Books of 2025 List Has Arrived
S. Zainab Williams Executive Director, Content S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Most circulated Canadian books of 2024
What books did Canadian library patrons love in 2024? In this blog post, we share lists of the most circulated books by Canadian contributors in the...
booknetcanada.ca
- 30+ days ago
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Criminally Good New Year: 13 New Mysteries, Thrillers, & True Crime for January 2025
If these mystery, thrillers, and true crime books are any indication, publishing is starting 2025 with a bang! As usual, I aimed to find something...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both acts spoke...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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The best new science fiction books of January 2025
If you are emerging from post-holiday stupors in desperate need of fresh horizons and new worlds to explore, then I have some great new science...
newscientist.com
- 30+ days ago
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New Mexico Becomes Fourth State to Introduce Anti-Book Ban Bill for 2025: Here’s What They Are (& What You Can Do To Help Pass Them)
Four states have started 2025 with anti-book ban bills on the table. Let’s take a brief look at what they say, who is behind them,...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste explains how oppression goes beyond racism in America
Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, is a necessary book. This is because it offers a valuable corrective to the prevailing...
nwprogressive.org
- 30+ days ago
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