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NYRB to Release Clarice Lispector’s Children’s Stories as Picture Books
By the time Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector died in 1977 at the age of 56, she had published eight novels. But throughout her life, she also wrote...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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Ken Follett's Circle of Days Reveals the Secrets of Stonehenge: See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Ken Follett’s new historical fiction is set to arrive on bookshelves soon! The author’s highly anticipated book, Circle of Days, will be released...
people.com
- 30+ days ago
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This is officially the best bookshop in London, according to time Out
Marylebone’s Daunt Books tops the list, thanks to its original Edwardian fixtures and first-rate stock From Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens to Zadie...
out.com
- 30+ days ago
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Mystery over rare book worth nearly £4,000 'vanishing' in Oxford
Christian White, a rare book collector and seller based in West Yorkshire, bought a 1639 edition of John Donne’s poetry at an auction in Oxford...
oxfordmail.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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Author, Grace N. Rogers Alum Visits Alma Mater in Honor of Read Across America Week
EAST WINDSOR, NJ — A successful author and Grace N. Rogers Elementary School (GNR) alumnus visited his alma mater last week in celebration of Read...
tapinto.net
- 30+ days ago
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Split Fiction’s invented sci-fi-vs.-fantasy rivalry is driving me up a wall
Split Fiction, the long-awaited It Takes Two follow-up from developer Hazelight Studios, is a very fun couch co-op game in a gaming environment with fewer...
polygon.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Novel I’m Searching For
Five years after the pandemic, I’m holding out for a story that doesn’t just describe our experience, but transforms it. In July of 2020,...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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Inside the media circus
Natasha Brown’s Universality is a wincing satire of journalism, publishing and cancel culture. The publication of Assembly in 2021 marked Natasha Brown...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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9 of the Best Redemption Rom-Coms to Tug at Your Heartstrings
When you think of the phrase “redemption rom-com”, what type of redemption are you thinking of? Maybe it’s a protagonist who did something to...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Postmortem: What Survives the John Wayne Gacy Murders by Courtney Lund O'Neil
Column: Beth's Book Review Postmortem: What Survives the John Wayne Gacy Murders by Courtney Lund O’Neil. Citadel, 2025. Author Courtney Lund O’Neil has...
tapinto.net
- 30+ days ago
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Magnum Sci-Fi: 5 Splendid Science Fiction Detective Novels
“DUNE, DUNE. In the criminal justice solar system” Paging Doctor Whodunit! (Yes, that’s two pop culture references in one line.) Inspired by the...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Taking Stock of Adolescence in ‘Headshot’
Late adolescence is a recipe for intensity: Hormones flare within not-quite-adult bodies, grown-up responsibilities bridle against childhood limits,...
altaonline.com
- 30+ days ago
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Bu Bei Dafeng Chuidao (Standing Strong against the Winds) by Mo Yan
Beijing. Beijing Daily Press. 2024. 189 pages. Mo Yan, as a representative figure of contemporary Chinese literature, has garnered widespread...
worldliteraturetoday.org
- 30+ days ago
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Hunger Games Prequel SUNRISE ON THE REAPING is Out Soon! Here’s What You Need to Know
Sunrise on the Reaping is finally coming out on March 18. Suzanne Collins’s last Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, was so...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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The book the entire state is reading? ‘Where We Come From,’ by four Minnesota writers.
It’s been chosen for this spring’s One Book One Minnesota. Minnesota’s state-wide book club is back in action. The title for this...
startribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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Candace Cameron Bure helps parents instill biblical values in kids with new book ‘The Crazy Compromise’
Candace Cameron Bure has spent decades in the spotlight, from her beloved role as D.J. Tanner on "Full House" to becoming a leading force...
christianpost.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Reading Crisis in College
How critical thinking skills can help combat the decline in college reading skills. Many professors have witnessed a troubling trend in recent years:...
psychologytoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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American Artist’s Love Letter to Octavia E. Butler
What would it mean for the survival of the planet if we were to take seriously Black feminist visions of climate justice in which coexistence...
hyperallergic.com
- 30+ days ago
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Six Novels of Intrigue Set in Golden Age Hollywood
Spectacular dreams, spectacularly shattered... It’s for good reason that one of the earliest lines from the 1990 movie Pretty Woman is this one: “This...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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From pointy hats to murder of innocents, 'The Story of Witches' revives the past
Mention witches and people will think about a plethora of different things. Little girls dressed up in black and carrying a tiny broom on Halloween...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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Cynthia Pelayo Weaves A Chilling Dreamscape in Vanishing Daughters
There is an intense, textural quality to Cynthia Pelayo’s prose, something that has developed over the course of her career and which blends poetry,...
pastemagazine.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Best New Book Releases Out March 11, 2025
I noticed a mini pattern this week while I was looking for new releases and started to wonder if there was some mid-March witchy memo...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Chicago Humanities Spring Festival boasts Leslie Odom Jr., Eve Ewing and Paul Reiser — because culture isn’t dead yet
You know how you don’t know which end is up right now? Nobody is interested in facts. (So we hear.) Expertise is no longer...
chicagotribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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Happily ever after? The risks and allure of dark romance
On this edition of Entre Nous, we take a deep dive into reading. On France’s National Reading Day, Solange Mougin looks at children’s...
france24.com
- 30+ days ago
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Joseph Wambaugh, who brought street cops to life in his books and movies, dies at 88
If you were a child in the ‘50s or ‘60s, growing up with a TV set in your home, you knew some cops and those...
chicagotribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week Book Spotlight: So Lucky by Nicola Griffith
March 9th kicked off Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, and as any reader knows, one great way to raise awareness of a disability is to read...
lgbtqreads.com
- 30+ days ago
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Nick Kolakowski on Mining the Past for a Hollywood Fixer Mystery
In 'Where the Bones Lie,' the usual Hollywood madness is spinning out of control. In another life time , I interviewed celebrities for glossy luxury...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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New books this week: A foodie memoir, a missing child, witches illustrated, and more
Merry daylight saving time , to all who celebrate! Between the later evenings, milder breezes and prodigious quantities of mud, the oncoming Ides of March often...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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Fiction Sales Grow, Nonfiction Declines Across International Book Markets
A new report prepared by GfK Entertainment and NielsenIQ BookData and released Tuesday at the London Book Fair showed that fiction sales are growing...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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12 "Empowering" Books With Strong Female Leads To Read In 2025
This Women’s History Month, celebrate strong, complex, and unforgettable female characters who challenge the status quo. These books with strong female leads span centuries...
brit.co
- 30+ days ago
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The Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor review – profound understanding through science fiction
Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor has won countless awards for science fiction and fantasy and currently has a number of books being adapted...
bigissue.com
- 30+ days ago
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Martin Scorsese is Adapting Marilynne Robinson’s GILEAD Series
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series is a favorite at Book Riot: we even named it one of the best book series of all time . Needless...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Tennessee Williams’ Home
The birthplace and original home of the legendary American playwright. Ichikawa, Japan In an unassuming corner of the city hall sits the restored study...
atlasobscura.com
- 30+ days ago
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“If that’s our future, it’s already here.”
Silvia Park’s debut novel, Luminous, takes place in a near-future, reunified Korea where robots bear the weight of human emotions....
bookpage.com
- 30+ days ago
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2025 British Book Awards Shortlists
The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2025 British Book Awards. Titles and authors of genre interest include:Fiction• James, Percival...
locusmag.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Last Days of Michael Stewart, a Young Black Artist of the East Village in the 1980s
Read a passage from Elon Green's new book, 'The Man Nobody Killed' In the early years of the 1980s, the East Village, a neighborhood on...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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Scorsese to Adapt This Best Book of the Century
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.The Gilead Series Will...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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12 Book Club Picks for March 2025 To Start Your Spring Reading
Welcome to spring and a new round of “what did the book clubs select this month”! I have a roundup of selections from a bunch...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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How do you solve a problem like Louis-Ferdinand Céline?
Nowadays, writers take no chances when it comes to safeguarding their work. They ensure multiple backups, storing files on their computer, external...
theconversation.com
- 30+ days ago
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Five of the Best 21st-Century Argentinian Novels, recommended by Claudia Piñeiro
You may be familiar with the work of the great Argentinian authors Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, but how about the country's crop...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Murder Trial that Shook Gilded Age San Francisco
Laura D. Fair was the talk of the booming city. Monday, March 27, 1871 Article continues after advertisement “At ten minutes to ten o’clock, the Bailiff...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: ‘The Dream Hotel’ is a dystopian world in which people are detained for dreams
Anyone who spends time on the internet knows that our demographics, preferences and interests are assiduously tracked by Big Tech companies hoping to...
sfchronicle.com
- 30+ days ago
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Why I hate Substack
Last month, the online magazine Current announced it will be shuttering in April. A small magazine run by a dedicated team of editors volunteering...
thespectator.com
- 30+ days ago
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Little Mysteries by Sara Gran review – a puzzling pleasure
One of my favourite things is when authors push the boundaries of the genre they’re supposed to be writing in. This week we have...
bigissue.com
- 30+ days ago
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $ 15,000 to a work of "distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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How the Wizard of Oz and the Bible influenced Karen Russell’s ‘The Antidote’
“The Antidote,” Karen Russell’s first novel in 14 years, is framed by two real-life events in Nebraska back in 1935 – a devastating dust storm and a...
dailynews.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Common Wages - Women Writers, Women's Books
I’m often asked how I go about writing the scenes in my books that are super tough. The ones that depict domestic violence, or...
booksbywomen.org
- 30+ days ago
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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to:*Kurt...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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On Cultivating the Book-scape
The book donation program at my library is not just a means of receiving books; it has also become, even more, a mechanism for disposing...
theimaginativeconservative.org
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: Author Bernice L. McFadden on breaking generational curses in 'Firstborn Girls'
The Bible includes a lot of begatting. Cush begat Nimrod. Jacob begat Joseph. Abraham begat Isaac. Salmon begat Boaz and Boaz begat Obed and on...
phillytrib.com
- 30+ days ago
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