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time ’s Most-Anticipated Books of 2025
I hope you didn’t have anything pressing on your 2024 TBR, because the world of books and reading is done with this year and ready...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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A Woman-Centered Retelling of a Greek Classic
Every winter, I’m drawn to classics, to myths and myth retellings. Last year, I inhaled Natalie Haynes’s essay collection Divine Might, which delves...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Pedestrian
This cockeyed superhero story from Esposito (Batman: Urban Legends) and Von Gorman (Secret Adventures of Houdini) mixes urban paranoia and the...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Ten Best Children's Books of 2024
When I first started compiling this year-end book list, my daughters were 3 years and just 6 months old, and my main duties were feeding and chasing...
smithsonianmag.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Top 10 Religion Publishing Stories of 2024
2024 is proving to be another banner year for religion publishing with sales up, up, up three consecutive quarters. Both trade and academic...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Rights Report: Week of December 16, 2024
Eileen Rothschild at Wednesday Books has bought, in an exclusive three-book deal, A Court of Dark Water, a YA romantasy series based on Scottish...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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Biographer of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Uses a Novelist’s Tools To Portray Their Romance
Camille Peri is an evocative writer, and perhaps that is why so many reviewers have hailed this biography as one of the year’s best....
nysun.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Allstora Launches New Book Clubs with Dylan Mulvaney, Gus Kenworthy
The online bookstore Allstora, founded by RuPaul as ShopQueer in 2022 before a 2024 rebrand, has partnered with actress and trans activist Dylan...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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The sadness and marginality of women in Scripture
A Reflection for Thursday of the Third Week of Advent Find today’s readings here. In 1945 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the...
americamagazine.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Bookshelf: Fall 2024
A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscape, cities, and related subjects. Read on Places Journal...
placesjournal.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Four Questions for Gloria Chao
Taiwanese American author Gloria Chao travels to Taipei for the first time on the page in her new YA romance, Ex Marks the Spot. When 18...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
How to find and wrap the perfect San Diego gift
S1: It's time for Midday Edition on KPBS. Today is our holiday show. We've got a gift guide , book recommendations , and sustainable ways to wrap...
kpbs.org
- 30+ days ago
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books / job & work
‘Love Is Blind’ contestants count as employees − new US government agency finding could shake up reality TV production
When members of a reality TV show’s cast sign a contract to participate in a show, they typically do so more for the exposure...
theconversation.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Nightward by R.S.A. Garcia: Review by Liz Bourke
The Nightward, R.S.A. Garcia (Harper Voyager US 978-0-06-334575-1, $ 19.99, 448pp, tp) October 2024.The Nightward is R.S.A. Garcia’s...
locusmag.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Introducing the 2025 Reading Log!
While I’ve been a lifelong lover of books, I’ve also been a serial not-finisher of them. I know we all have a DNF...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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A critic looks back at some of the year's most striking culture moments
John Powers the books, shows and performances that stayed with him, including Miranda July's novel All Fours, Interior Chinatown on Netflix and an iconic Olympic...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Should you correct people who mistake you for your kid's grandma?
“Yes, you should,” said one TODAY co-host. It can be horribly awkward to be called the wrong name ... but the cringe factor skyrockets if someone...
today.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Miami's only free bookstore wants to save books, bookstores
Tucked away in the back of Wynwood's Bakehouse Art Complex where you might expect to find another art studio or workspace, there are stacks of...
axios.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: In a Drowning New York City, Can All of Natural History Be Saved?
All the Water in the World: A Novel by Eiren Caffall. St. Martin’s Press, 2025 ( $ 29) Eiren Caffall’s lyric yet gripping first novel centers, as...
scientificamerican.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
See inside The Last Bookstore Studio City’s massive, just-opened bookstore
Inside a sprawling former home decor emporium in Studio City, The Last Bookstore opened its newest outpost on Dec. 14. The massive space features...
dailynews.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More
Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has...
themarginalian.org
- 30+ days ago
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Translation-adjacent
Do people know what translators do? Well, as the name suggests, they translate. But what does that mean, exactly?Even translators’ definitions of...
wordswithoutborders.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Chicagoans of the Year in Books: Javier and Kristin Ramirez of Exile in Bookville are getting good energy back in volumes
What Javier and Kristin Ramirez have built on Michigan Avenue feels like a cool secret. And that, in fact, was the idea. They built a...
chicagotribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with novels from William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual...
chicagotribune.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
My Marriage Sabbatical: A Memoir of Solo Travel and Lasting Love by Leah Fisher: Excerpt - Women Writers, Women's Books
A vibrant, honest, and unique travel memoir for readers who think they’re too old to “eat, pray, love,” My Marriage Sabbatical captures marital...
booksbywomen.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Chronicle readers share top Texas reads — from Edna Ferber to Larry McMurtry
Recently, “Native Texan” columnist Joe Holley shared his top ten Texas books. We asked readers to share their own essential Texas reads. If you have...
houstonchronicle.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
John Ingram Receives 2024 Frederic G. Melcher Life time Achievement Award
Considering the fact that Ingram is a family business, it is no surprise John Ingram began his business education as a teenager packing books at...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: Read 'If We Are Brave' and don't let history repeat itself
What do you think? You may remember the first time a respected adult asked you in earnest for your opinion, and you felt like you...
phillytrib.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Give the gift of reading this holiday season with Colorado authors
It’s the week before Christmas. And Hanukkah. And the annual rush on bookstores has begun. If the crowded shelves and the volumes stacked precariously...
cpr.org
- 30+ days ago
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books / movie & tv / gaming
Marvel officially unveils our new Cyclops
There’s no shame in exclusively enjoying Marvel via its film and television output. That being said, if that’s you, I’d urge you...
gamingbible.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Best Book Club Books of 2024
After seeing all manner of best-of book roundups these past few weeks, I thought it was time that I, as the writer of our book...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Podcast: An introduction to the European Union Deforestation Regulation
In this month’s podcast episode, we talk to Simon Crump, Environmental Consultant for BIC, to discuss the European Union Deforestation Regulation...
booknetcanada.ca
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: 'The Rivals' is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death
Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,”...
apnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: This Relationship Shaped Rachel Carson’s Environmental Ethos
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell. Stanford University Press, 2025 ( $ 25) On a summer night in the mid-1950s, two women lay...
scientificamerican.com
- 30+ days ago
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At the Gates of Fortress Europe
The story of Sajjad Mohammedhasan, who sought asylum but received a year in Lithuania’s border prisons. Druskininkai is a hilly, forested area in...
nybooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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Book Review: The Surprising Comeback of Our Least Appreciated Sense
As COVID spread across the world in early 2020, people began to report losing their sense of smell. Public health organizations were focused on...
scientificamerican.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Move over, Alexandria: A new exhibit features lost, imagined, and totally fake books.
For the next few months in New York City, book nerds with a penchant for esoterica can enjoy a special treat.The Grolier Club, “America’...
lithub.com
- 30+ days ago
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Three Literary Translators Discuss Their Paths to Writing Their Debut Novels - Electric Literature
Writing fiction itself might be (and often is) considered an act of translation: from experience to language, from emotion to logic, from chaos to...
electricliterature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Lerner Publishing Group Acquires Soaring Kite Books
Lerner Publishing Group announced on Monday that the Minneapolis children’s publisher is acquiring Soaring Kite Books; the acquisition will be...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Authors Guild Reinforces Its Position on AI Licensing
As the debates and discussions over all matters of rights pertaining to AI move forward, the Authors Guild has issued a lengthy statement that...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Year-End Reading Recommendations, Book Club Suggestions, and More
We’re getting very, very close to the end of the year, so let’s go out with an explosion of reading recommendations! We’ve...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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A Year in Reading: Jeremy Gordon
I have long made lists of my favorite cultural artifacts of the year—as a college blogger blathering about movies to a single-digit readership, as...
themillions.com
- 30+ days ago
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My Marriage Sabbatical: A Memoir of Solo Travel and Lasting Love by Leah Fisher: Excerpt - Women Writers, Women's Books
A vibrant, honest, and unique travel memoir for readers who think they’re too old to “eat, pray, love,” My Marriage Sabbatical captures marital...
booksbywomen.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
PW Notables 2024: Skip Dye
In 2024, freedom to read advocates notched several legal and legislative victories, raising hopes that after a yearslong, politically motivated surge...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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PW Notables 2024: Regina Brooks
Drawing on her first career working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Regina Brooks is bringing the innovative spirit of an engineer to the...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / writing
PW Close-Up: OMERA Press
Angela McKenna formed her full-service cooperative press by taking the traditional publishing process—concept, edits, professional illustrators,...
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Inside The Booker Prize's Controversial 2025 Judging Panel
‘Winner of the Booker Prize’ is a coveted label that any novel would wear with pride – most recently donned by Samantha Harvey’s Orbital. The...
countryandtownhouse.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Here are 5 books that would make great holiday gifts
Thoughtful and easy to wrap, the gift of a book is a great holiday choice. In a bid to help you with your book buying...
vancouversun.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The man who bought everything
Masayoshi Son has amassed eye-popping wealth through relentless acquisition and unquenchable optimism. Towards the end of the Second World War, a B-29...
newstatesman.com
- 30+ days ago
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7 Literary Magazines To Sell Your Writing to Today
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCF chapter.You can make real money selling your writing to literary...
hercampus.com
- 30+ days ago
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