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Revealing His Face Is the Sun by Michelle Jabès Corpora - Reactor
We’re thrilled to share the cover for His Face Is the Sun, the first book in the Throne of Khetara trilogy by Michelle Jabè...
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Former President Jimmy Carter: The 'Fresh Air' interviews (Part 2)
The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns about how intertwined politics and religion had become. Carter died...
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Lessons from the afterlife
In A Second Act, intensive care doctor Matt Morgan collects stories from patients who returned from death. Can they teach us how to live? Close...
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The Unbearable Whiteness of the Goodreads Choice Awards
The 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards broke records. The site, which is owned by Amazon and boasts over 150 million members globally, saw 6.2 million of...
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Writers Talking Writers: Ben Okri on Christopher Okigbo and Katie Kitamura on Natalia Ginzburg
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who...
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Books similar to 'Percy Jackson': Greek mythology books for fans of Rick Riordan's series
It’s almost time to return to Camp Half-Blood! “Percy Jackson” fans will get another season of the beloved series reboot some time in 2025, Disney...
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
This week’s bestseller lists are reporting on sales from the end of December, a time when very few books are published. So it’s...
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Elsa Morante’s wild, compelling fiction
This vivid story of class and family by the rediscovered Italian novelist was where Elena Ferrante “discovered what literature can be”. The whole...
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The Horse by Timothy C. Winegard (Book Review)
Timothy Winegard’s "The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity" is a sweeping study of the transformative role horses have played in shaping the...
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R.F. Kuang’s Babel, one of our favorite fantasy books, is just $ 2 on eBook
R.F. Kuang’s Nebula and Locus Award-winning fantasy novel Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence is widely adored. Polygon considered one of the best...
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From ‘ACOTAR’ to ‘Throne of Glass’: FIRST Editors Share Their Top 8 Sarah J. Maas Books
Get ready to embark on a magical and swoon-worthy adventure in the Maasverse! In recent years, the romantasy genre has taken the literary world by...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 —...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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- 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....
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