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Book review: ‘Nemesis,’ the new Orphan X novel, delivers with elaborate plot, intriguing protagonist
‘Nemesis: An Orphan X Novel’ by Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, 464 pages, $ 30 Hard-charging action will draw readers but fully realized characters will...
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Leverett author’s new book ‘Wind Watchers’ captures wonder of nature for kids
Whether the wind is turning pages of a book Micha Archer is reading at home in Leverett or breezing through her writing studio in Costa...
masslive.com
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The Map of Bones author Kate Mosse is all about ‘telling the other half of history’
More than a decade ago, Kate Mosse had a vision of sorts in the Huguenot graveyard in Franschhoek, South Africa. “I suddenly had a very...
theglobeandmail.com
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Those Passions. On Art and Politics
Keep up. Get CounterPunch in your inbox. T. J. Clark Thames & Hudson, London, 2025 Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read...
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Award Updates, Romance Reader Resources, and More News for Libraries
Even in the midst of this chaotic upheaval, collection development and readers advisory is still happening in libraries. Here are some recent lists,...
bookriot.com
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The Best New YA Books of February 2025
February is generally known for two things: Valentine’s Day and extremely crappy weather. As we all hunker down for yet another round of arctic...
pastemagazine.com
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Everyone Is Reading Timothy Snyder's 'On Tyranny,' for Some Reason
The New York time s bestseller list is typically home to recent, buzzworthy releases, but a 2017 nonfiction book has been dominating the Combined...
rollingstone.com
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Jill Amy Sager: On Writing - Women Writers, Women's Books
According to my cousin Deena, I’ve lived my life unencumbered by traditional expectations. When she mentioned this about thirty years ago, I didn’t...
booksbywomen.org
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The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
The most read books on Goodreads this week are much the same as they were last week—in fact, the top five are identical. To...
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Why Gabrielle Korn says ‘The Shutouts’ is stronger because of her writing group
Though climate change and governmental mismanagement have been hot-button issues for years, Los Angeles-based author Gabrielle Korn couldn’t have...
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If you love watching 'Yellowjackets' try reading these unhinged books
Even though we waited nearly two years for the return of our favorite on-screen cannibals, a week still feels like an eternity for another episode...
usatoday.com
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Susan Morrison’s Lorne, Eric Puchner’s Dream State, and Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen’s Bookshelf all feature among the best reviewed books of...
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Kennedy Center evacuates due to bomb threat targeting Shen Yun
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been evacuated following a bomb threat called in Thursday morning. A spokesperson for the Kennedy...
npr.org
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7 Books About a Prophecy That Changes Everything - Electric Literature
The urge to know the future is inborn, it seems; from infancy, we are comforted by the anticipated. Prophecy, defined simply as prediction, assumes...
electricliterature.com
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Nonfiction With Gorgeous and Immersive Prose
There are few things that I love more than reading nonfiction books with incredible prose. I lose myself in underlining, annotating, and thinking...
bookriot.com
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A Novelist, a Poet, and the Human Experience in All of Its Colors and Formulations
Tess Chakkalakal has written a conventional, if eloquent, biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, just as eloquent, has composed a...
nysun.com
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In 'Jane Austen's Bookshelf,' read about the women writers who shaped the novelist
Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped...
npr.org
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A Profoundly Empathetic Book on Homelessness in the Bay Area
Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to offer a powerful reminder of the moral side of the crisis. There’s a...
newyorker.com
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Hybrid Life in a Drowned Argentina: Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva
Books book review Hybrid Life in a Drowned Argentina: Dengue Boy by Michel NievaA review of Michel Nieva’s new dystopian gaucho-punk novelBy Tobias...
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Rethinking Reconstruction: Kate Masur on “Freedom Was in Sight” - Public Books
Emancipation Day is a special holiday in Washington, DC. Observed annually on April 16, the day is meant to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln’s...
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Local Author, Illustrator Create ‘Frankie and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Fiasco’
WESTFIELD, NJ — Like peanut butter and jelly, Fanwood author Candace Waller and Westfield illustrator Abigail Kahn combined their talents to create a...
tapinto.net
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14 Black Bay Area authors to add to your reading list
Black authors around the world are taking literary genres to new heights, and many of them started right here in the Bay. State of play:...
axios.com
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With ‘No Fault,’ Haley Mlotek Has Written the Ne Plus Ultra of Divorce Memoirs
The last few years’ buzziest nonfiction releases have included several powerful divorce memoirs, from Sarah Manguso’s Liars to Leslie Jamison’s Splinters. Joining the...
vogue.com
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You’re Not Alone, You’re in Your 20s: Books Every 20-Something Should Read
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at FSU chapter.I’m sure many of us can agree: your 20s...
hercampus.com
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Stranger Than Fiction: 5 Fabulous Nonfiction Books About SFF
Now that we are a couple of centuries out from popular published science fiction and fantasy, it is easy to see how many things authors...
bookriot.com
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Which Celebrity Book Club Could (Actually) Change Your Life?
In the beginning, there was Oprah. Now, there are over a dozen celebrity-helmed book clubs that could make an author’s career. But do they...
thecut.com
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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.
Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything...
lithub.com
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Lisa's Mystery Picks
This week, don’t miss a British espionage thriller, a whodunit featuring five real-life female mystery novelists, and a tale of a deadly conspiracy...
airmail.news
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Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish
“Type gives body and voice to silent thought. The speaking page carries it through the centuries.” –Friedrich Schiller *In the summer of 1917, in the...
lithub.com
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Brandon Sanderson recalls hilarious prank fellow fantasy author Joe Abercrombie made him pull during a book tour
In addition to being a ridiculously prolific fantasy author, one of Brandon Sanderson's great charms is that he loves to chat at length about the...
winteriscoming.net
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6 Fun Romantasy Books to Fall in Love With
We exist in an era when writers aren’t restricting themselves to a single genre. Lucky us! You can find works that merge all kinds...
bookriot.com
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Oh, no! There goes Chicago! Godzilla finally gets to the Midwest in new comic book
As if Chicago didn’t have enough problems. Here comes Godzilla, as in Gojira, the Big G, Tokyo’s Own. “Da King of da Monsters...
chicagotribune.com
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Selling Out Our Public Schools
For decades, the term “school choice”—and the programs it signifies, which divert public money to private schools—was widely and rightly dismissed as...
nybooks.com
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The Stones That Keep On Rolling
From Mick Jagger to Paul McCartney, music’s old guard is proving there’s no age limit for being a rock starBy David HepworthMost books...
airmail.news
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Montrealers celebrate the garment worker whose exhaustive Yiddish poetry collection has been archived by McGill University
He was not a man of letters in a style traditionally bestowed upon great scholars.Joe Fishstein, who immigrated to New York City from his...
thecjn.ca
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Get R.F. Kuang’s acclaimed Poppy War trilogy for only $ 4
After I read R. F. Kuang’s debut novel The Poppy War in 2021, I knew I’d read anything else the author had published — a...
polygon.com
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Kids’ bookstore owner who banned book after spotting drawing on one page reveals all the books she refuses to sell
Warning: This article contains discussion of discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community which some readers may find distressing. A children's...
tyla.com
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Henrietta Szold & the Return to Zion
Henrietta Szold devoted her life to the conviction that diaspora Jews should have a strong emotional connection to the Holy Land and to building a...
nybooks.com
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10 new books by Black authors to read this Black History Month, from thrillers to rom-coms
Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like...
usatoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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2 Authors Like Sally Rooney For The Thought Daughter
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Conn chapter.Books you should read if you liked her writing“...
hercampus.com
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7 Stories About Women Coming of Age in Their 30s and 40s - Electric Literature
Coming-of-age stories are typically defined as the transition from childhood to adulthood, which is why we most commonly imagine teens and young...
electricliterature.com
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Avatar: Seven Havens sequel series to Last Airbender, Korra reveals first details — and a new earthbender
Get the first official details on the next Avatar. The next generation's Avatar has awakened, and she's an earthbender. For the 20th anniversary of Nickelodeon's...
ew.com
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"It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampires
"What you people want?” “Just a couple more minutes of your time , about the same duration as the rest of your life.” The bar scene...
loudersound.com
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See the cover for Sri Lankan mythology-inspired romantasy novel Her Soul for a Crown (exclusive)
Alysha Rameera makes her debut with a love story cast against the backdrop of war. See the cover and read an excerpt. Would you trade...
ew.com
- 30+ days ago
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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still...
lithub.com
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The Wrong War on the War on Drugs
The war on drugs has failed, but so has the constitutional counteroffensive in the courts. What should reformers do instead? As failures go, the war...
nybooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Price of American ‘Safety’
A number of new books recount the horror America created and then left in Afghanistan. Can anyone grasp the realities of occupation and the “war...
nybooks.com
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From Sophy Roberts to Bettina Anton: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Eric Ravilious Through the Eyes of his Contemporaries introduced by Alan Powers and Humans: A Monstrous History by Surekha Davies. A...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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How a real-life shock helped inspire ‘Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets’
Author Christopher Farnsworth talks about becoming the author of books featuring the character Jesse Stone. Subscribe to continue reading this article....
dailynews.com
- 30+ days ago
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First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later
The oldest published cookbook by a Black American woman — that we know of is out in a brand new edition this February. Malinda Russell wrote...
npr.org
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