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Book Review: 'In Slavery's Wake,' a comprehensive look at slavery yesterday and today
Ever since you learned how it happened, you couldn’t get it out of your mind. People, packed like pencils in a box, tightly next...
phillytrib.com
- 30+ days ago
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Kids are Bookin' It: 'God's Kiss' an enchanting tale for the holiday season - My Edmonds News
God’s Kiss by Donna Seebo Illustrated by Ed Gedrose Recommended for children of all ages Author Donna Seebo writes that “Dreams are windows into...
myedmondsnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Knight Before Christmas
Any discussion of Christmas and literature brings to mind instantly the miserly figure of Scrooge and the ghosts in Dickens’ Christmas Carol. It is...
theimaginativeconservative.org
- 30+ days ago
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Haruki Murakami's latest novel is a fight against aging
It’s an hour to midnight in mid-November. The Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York is filled with tote bag-sporting, literature-loving...
joysauce.com
- 30+ days ago
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New Year, New You edited by Chris Campbell: Review by Alexandra Pierce
New Year, New You, Chris Campbell, ed. (Immortal Jellyfish Press 979-8-99077-550-3, 312pp, $ 25.00, tp). Cover by Melinda Smith. October 2024.In my...
locusmag.com
- 30+ days ago
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Victoria Nordlund, I’m at the end, riding the goat with snow-white hair
I’m at the end, riding the goat with snow-white hairAfter Longfellow’s ‘The Poet’s Calendar’Just past the stiff winds & half-dead leaves...
dodgingtherain.com
- 30+ days ago
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Shanghai Children's Book Fair 2024: The Chinese Children's Book Market in Brief
The 11th edition of the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair ended its three-day run on November 17. Post-event statistics from...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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Everything to Know About the 'Fourth Wing' Books: Your Guide to the 'Empyrean' Series
Rebecca Yarros's fantasy novels have become a literary phenomenon—and there's more on the way very soon. If you needed proof that the world could...
marieclaire.com
- 30+ days ago
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2024 Was Substack’s Year and a Win for Independent Media
“You are the media now.” If Oxford were to have a “phrase of the year,” it might be that single little line, which, if you...
mindmatters.ai
- 30+ days ago
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‘We Will Live!’: Positive Freedom in ‘The Sympathizer’
I started rereading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer the day after the 2024 election, and my plans for this essay immediately disintegrated. I had...
altaonline.com
- 30+ days ago
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Justice Will Sellers: Humanity’s hope at Christmas
Seventy- five years ago, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, an accomplishment that was significant enough, but what he said...
yellowhammernews.com
- 30+ days ago
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The struggle between wanting to know things while rejecting challenging truths
NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with author Mark Lilla about his new book, "Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know."...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Your Favorite Books of the 2024 Read Harder Challenge
Back in November, I sent out a survey about your experience with the 2024 Read Harder Challenge, including your favorite book you read for the...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Reviews and More From NBCC Members
Members and friends, last week, we announced our first-ever longlists for the NBCC Awards! You can find links to the lists on our awards page....
bookcritics.org
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: Pip Drysdale's new Hollywood thriller 'The Close-Up' weighs legacy against love
Drawn by sheer possibility and that magic, golden-hour light of Los Angeles, Zoe Ann Weiss moves from London to California when she gets her two-book-deal...
sfgate.com
- 30+ days ago
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Briefly Noted
“Giant Love,” “Anima,” “Playworld,” and “Havoc.” Giant Love, by Julie Gilbert (Pantheon). Fusing biography and Hollywood history, this book chronicles the creation of Edna Ferber’...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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Jean Adamson, who created Topsy and Tim children’s books, dies at 96
Since 1960, the homespun stories about the English twins Topsy and Tim have sold more than 25 million copies. Jean Adamson, a writer and illustrator of children’...
washingtonpost.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Custodian
A poem published in The Atlantic in 2011 Edward Hirsch didn’t always write poetry for a living. He’s been a busboy, a railroad brakeman,...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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Bass Lake
For a week we walked the roadside without pavement to the lake, cooked meals in the heavy iron pan, slept in the afternoons and talked...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Book 2025 is here
The Book, our annual compilation of exclusive lists, rankings, recognitions and more is now available to subscribers as a digital edition. If you’re...
chicagobusiness.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
News Corp, Telstra to Sell Australian Pay TV Company Foxtel to DAZN Group
Deal will allow News Corp to narrow its focus on key growth areas News CorpNWSA0.71%increase; green up pointing triangle and Australian telecom company Telstra...
wsj.com
- 30+ days ago
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Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood
Recent entries into the literature of parenting offer disparate visions of dadhood as part of a man’s private, or public, life. American literature is...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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Who Is Telling These Greek Goddesses’ Stories?
As a kid, my mom introduced me to Egyptian, Greek, and Roman mythology, reading me story after story. Later, I picked up a middle grade...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' Why?
Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno –...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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Is News Corporation Stock Outperforming the Dow?
Valued at a market cap of $ 17.5 billion, New York-based News Corporation (NWS) is a global media and information services company. Its diverse...
barchart.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The 6 Best Debut Novels of the Year, According to a Major Bookworm
This year has been one for the books, literally. We’ve had sizzling love stories, bone-chilling thrillers that require day time -only reading (IYKYK),...
bestlifeonline.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Prelude in Grey Major
Melancholy, most beautiful word, like a sound some ancient instrument unearthed— or earthed, its fusion of cave and cloud. Or cloud, come to think, so...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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A Christmas gift over 50 years in the making: Family gifts dad with book he started decades ago
Jonathan Spilde and Kaiya Spilde Johnson joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss Spilde getting his Christmas children's book from college published by his own...
foxnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Watchlist: December 2024
From NYRB Classics | The Rest Is Silence by Augusto Monterroso, translated from the Spanish by Aaron Kerner | Fiction | 176 pages | ISBN...
wordswithoutborders.org
- 30+ days ago
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The movies, shows, books, and music we couldn’t stop thinking about this year
Vox’s cultural obsessions of 2024. When you see a movie or read a book that you can’t get out of your head, there’s...
vox.com
- 30+ days ago
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John Short, Chocolate Snowman
CHOCOLATE SNOWMANBleak winds howl at brickwork, you curl with mulled wine, imagine me as an old man in red disguise, a candyfloss, elasticated beard. I...
dodgingtherain.com
- 30+ days ago
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Opinion | Humanity’s hope at Christmas
Seventy- five years ago, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, an accomplishment that was significant enough, but what he said...
alreporter.com
- 30+ days ago
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Library to the Rescue: Ukiah opens free pantry for the community
The Ukiah Branch Library has launched a Little Free Pantry to support community members in need, according to a press release from the Mendocino...
mendofever.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Best China Books of 2024, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
From an issue of a literary magazine that brings together contemporary writing from across mainland China to books focusing on different periods of...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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Does Morality Do Us Any Good?
Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that should be. Nothing...
newyorker.com
- 30+ days ago
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In search of a new 20th-century canon
In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, provoking list of 32...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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6 exciting new books for 2025: San Diego's top picks
Goodbye 2024, and hello 2025. As we close the chapter on this year, we prepare to begin another — one that’s already looking rich with new book...
kpbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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Six Books to Read by the Fire
Each of these titles is a perfect companion while the days grow imperceptibly longer. When I taught high-school English, I loved planning out the syllabus,...
theatlantic.com
- 30+ days ago
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10 subscriptions and memberships for gifts that keep on giving
Subscription services provide a gift that keeps on giving long after the holiday season is over. They’re a way for the giftee to try...
foxnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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Shorter Books to End Out Your 2024 Reading
We’ve already gotten some most-anticipated book lists, courtesy of time and Goodreads, and all I can say is: we are still technically in 2024, girl!...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Girl on the Train’ by Paula Hawkins
Every day, Rachel (‘The Girl on the Train’) passes a row of cozy suburban homes on her ride in and out of London. She catches...
msnbc.com
- 30+ days ago
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Syria: The Prison Gates Thrown Open
The Assad regime’s prisons were some of the worst in the world: sites of isolation, humiliation, torture, starvation, and sadistic killing on an...
nybooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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Every Simon Teen Bestseller of 2024
2024 has been an incredible year of YA books. We have fought monsters alongside Liska, fell in love with Rowan and Neil (again!), and swooned/cried...
simonteen.com
- 30+ days ago
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Why people are drawn to crime stories
From chart-topping podcasts to streaming series and bestselling books, crime stories continue captivating audiences worldwide. This fascination...
rollingout.com
- 30+ days ago
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Most popular books of the week: See the top 10 on USA TODAY Best-selling Booklist
If you’re in the mood for a good read and don’t know where to find the perfect book, just look at USA TODAY’...
usatoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / writing
The Verge’s favorite books from 2024
Our staff writes about the best books they read over the course of the year. When it comes to entertainment and education, we can choose...
theverge.com
- 30+ days ago
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Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts: All our names for 2024
As we approach the end of 2023, the critics and columnists of A+E reflect on the year to highlight some people who have made a...
chicagotribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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Fleetwood Mac: Messy tendrils and fascinating side quests help illuminate band's enduring allure
Fleetwood Mac’s legacy is often considered in broad strokes. The turbulent romantic relationship (and subsequent breakup) of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The time...
salon.com
- 30+ days ago
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Pamela Paul: 10 life lessons for grown-ups from children's classics
It’s easy to get sen time ntal about the joy children’s books bring to kids. But picture books must also be read by...
spokesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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A Whole of Parts: Philosopher R.L. Nettleship on Love, Death, and the Paradox of Personality
“A persona is a portal we are not aware of passing through,” my beloved editor Dan Frank wrote in an unpublished poem shortly before the...
themarginalian.org
- 30+ days ago
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