writing / books
7 Novels Featuring Protagonists Over 70 - Electric Literature
If we’re lucky enough to reach old age, our lives will continue to surprise us—in ways that are as varied and utterly transformative...
electricliterature.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Inspector Gamache, John Rebus and Bruno Courrèges are back—and they’re all in top form
Plus, Colleen Cambridge gifts readers with another clever mystery starring Phyllida Bright, housekeeper to none other than Agatha Christie....
bookpage.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / celebrity / gaming
DC Studios Reveals Wild First Look at the New Wonder Woman
thedirect.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Brutes by Dizz Tate review – a whip-smart and warped coming-of-age Florida fairytale
A schoolmate’s disappearance is the hook for a slippery debut novel exploring the friendships and futures of a gang of eighth-grade girls...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Apple Music's arrogance might cost them more than it cost music lovers for new book
Apple Music clearly thinks it's special. The truth is, though, that the music streaming service is just one of many and listeners could tune into...
audiophix.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Some voters are pushing back on lawmakers' efforts to overturn citizen ballot initiatives
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — One by one, each of the more than 50 people seated on folding chairs at a public library explained why they were...
apnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
‘He was certainly a racist’: J Edgar Hoover and a history of white nationalism
A new book looks back at the long-serving FBI director’s devotion to keeping America a white Christian republic and the devastating effect he had...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing / books
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was inspired by the secret meaning he found in Beowulf
His unique perspective of the story's true meaning not only lead to the creation of his own masterpiece, but the way we all understand Beowulf...
upworthy.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Archaeologists Uncover 2,200-Year-Old Pyramid
mensjournal.com
- 30+ days ago
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books / photography
Rulx Thork’s Authentic Portrait of City Life in Brooklyn
This story is taken from the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Another Man, which is on sale internationally now. Order here: “I grew up in a...
anothermag.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The Best History Books of 2024: The Wolfson History Prize, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
To win the Wolfson History Prize, a book must be both original and accessible to the general reader. British historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, one of...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
New library books – April 2025
Our Resources Team highlight some newly acquired books that you perhaps haven’t heard of, to spark the imagination or draw you into another world....
wordpress.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – 20 years of frustration and fury in Iraq
The architects of the 2003 invasion promised change and democracy. This book shatters western assumptions, shows the effect on Iraqis of cycles of violence – and offers...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
What is ‘Onyx Storm’ and why is everyone reading it?
BestReviews is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission. Details. ‘Onyx Storm’ is a fantasy novel — but why is everyone reading it? If...
newsnationnow.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing / books
Unromance is for all the romance lovers out there
Being a romance reader is no easy task and the same can be said about a romance writer. That's why I was so excited to...
culturess.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: 'Forza Ferrari: How F1’s Most Famous Team Can Win Again'
We dare you to read this one and not root for the Prancing Horses on race day. When it comes to Formula 1-themed book forewords,...
autoweek.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Carnegie medal for writing announces all-female shortlist
Seven authors are in the running for prize celebrating outstanding achievement in children’s writing...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing / books
3 Must-Read Thriller/Crime Novels
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UWindsor chapter.The ‘thriller’ genre is an umbrella term for fiction that...
hercampus.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
January 2025 Book Review | 'A Walk in the Park'
In his award-winning book, “The Emerald Mile,” author Kevin Fedarko described the great Colorado River’s 1983 Grand Canyon flood. In his latest...
kpcw.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Picture books for children – reviews
Rose Tremain and JJ Bola become the latest novelists to turn their hands to writing for young children with tales about a magical metal bird...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
Self- Portrait As Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant; A Tower Built Downwards by Yang Lian; Artifice by Lavinia Singer; Master of Distances by Jordi Doce; Customs...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Many UK primary schoolchildren ‘drastically’ missing out on poetry
Research in January by Macmillan and CLPE found limited books and lack of teacher support means majority study or hear poetry less than once a...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
48 Hilariously Absurd Comics That Serve As Commentary On Today’s Society, By Anton Gudim (New Pics)
boredpanda.com
- 30+ days ago
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architecture / books
One wedding, two brides: Telangana man marries both women he fell in love with
moneycontrol.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Poem of the week: Letter to a Land Owner by Sean Borodale
A poem in response to the ban on wild camping in Dartmoor – a quiet, tender appeal against the belief that ‘powerful landscapes are only for...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
In a new book, an entomologist from the University of Delaware urges everyone to put native plants in their yards
Native- plants champion Doug Tallamy says individuals should reduce the amount of lawn they have and plant more native plants in his latest book, “How...
whyy.org
- 30+ days ago
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books
Kash Patel’s ‘Deep State’ enemy list includes Alabama native who worked for Tuberville, Sessions
A former Justice Department official from Alabama who also served as Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s chief of staff and held several roles with then-Sen....
www.al.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Liberal Media Lays Groundwork For Mass Pardons Of Deep State Minions — And Apparently Biden’s Team Is Listening
Following President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter Biden’s alleged crimes, members of the liberal media suggested he pardon a wide...
dailycaller.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
11 Things Gen X Kids Had In School That Made Childhood Magical
It’s fairly common to look back on the past and see only the good parts. Most people remember aspects of their youth with the...
yourtango.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Why ‘Fourth Wing’ author Rebecca Yarros is ‘slowing down’ her writing pace — and what she’s working on next
The first two books of Yarros' hit romantasy series published within six months of each other. "For two and a half years it's been all ‘...
today.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
'Starship Troopers' Getting New Movie Adaptation From 'District 9' Director
District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp is set to write and direct a new adaptation of Starship Troopers, based on the 1959 science fiction fantasy novel...
movieweb.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Vanche Gujarat: A revolutionary initiative of PM Modi in 2010, to inspire culture of reading among youth
New Delhi, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) From Swachh Bharat to Ujwala Yojana to PM Awas Yojana to Make in India initiative, many such schemes are...
socialnews.xyz
- 30+ days ago
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books
When did human ancestors start eating meat regularly?
cosmosmagazine.com
- 30+ days ago
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‘Excessive loyalty’: how Republican giant George Shultz fell for Nixon, Reagan … and Elizabeth Holmes
The great secretary of state’s biographer, Philip Taubman, balances cold war achievements with costly political failures...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Worthy of the Event: An Essay
publishersweekly.com
- 30+ days ago
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Matt Rowland Hill: ‘My mother says she will sue me if I ever write another book like it’
The author of Original Sins on his book’s impact on his evangelical parents, reading the Patrick Melrose series while waiting for drug dealers, and...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
What will Ajay Devgn do if there's a raid at Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan’s house? His witty response is breaking the internet: ‘Main apne ghar pe…’
pinkvilla.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
A village treasure hunt digs up trouble, a game of dares goes too far and a Mary Higgins Clark classic is revisited in this month’...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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The Best 18th-Century Novels, recommended by Sophie Gee
There's nothing in modern works of fiction that wasn't already there in the great novels of the 18th century, argues Sophie Gee, a professor of...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
NYC libraries reveal their most popular books of 2024
gothamist.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
How to Live a Private Life Without Ditching Your Devices
nextbigideaclub.com
- 30+ days ago
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After 96 Years, Archaeologists Finally Found the Missing Part of a Legendary Statue
aol.com
- 30+ days ago
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Patrick French: the biographer of VS Naipaul was a generous collaborator with twinkling wit
The writer and historian, who has died aged 56, was not only widely respected for his writing on India but a kind and optimistic man, says...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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Hachette acquires World English Rights to new novel in the globally bestselling Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski for publication in late 2025
NEW YORK, NY and LONDON (February 27, 2025)—Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, and Orbit US, part of Hachette Book Group USA, are...
hachettebookgroup.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Welcome to Scribe Quarterly—introducing The CJN’s reimagined magazine
Click here for a free subscription and receive future print issues in the mail.When The Canadian Jewish News launched in 1960, it was as a...
thecjn.ca
- 30+ days ago
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books
If you give a girl a cow … she’s going to make ice cream
TORRINGTON — “If you give a mouse a cookie,” we all know what happens next, thanks to the popular children’s book series by Laura Numeroff....
wyomingnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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Library director resigns amid public criticism, investigations - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — The director of the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) resigned Monday, according to a statement from the library Tuesday morning....
ithacavoice.org
- 30+ days ago
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The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist, recommended by Isabel Hilton
From nuclear war to a heartbreaking medical story, from the memoirs of novelists and the life of an artist to the struggle for independence in...
fivebooks.com
- 30+ days ago
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Laleh Khalili: I am Genghis Khan
Masayoshi Son seems compulsively driven to invest larger and larger sums so he can call himself the biggest, most significant, most visionary...
lrb.co.uk
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: Brian Castleberry aims for a Jonathan Franzen-style saga with 'The Californians'
Like its characters, Brian Castleberry’s second novel, “The Californians,” is full of ambition. It spans eras of American history, diving into everything from the...
sfgate.com
- 30+ days ago
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