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21 hours ago

The 11 Books You Should Be Reading This March

March book recommendations span baseball history, musical theater biography, alternate timeline fiction, and military science fiction exploring diverse topics from the Mets to Sondheim to AI warfare.
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fromPsychology Today
3 hours ago

The Werther Effect Is Real

Suicide contagion, known as the Werther Effect, causes clusters of suicides through copycat behavior triggered by high-profile deaths or media coverage.
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fromVulture
5 hours ago

How Should a White Woman Writer Be?

White women writers from the Dimes Square literary scene are receiving major book launches and media attention, sparking both acclaim and online criticism about nepotism and industry favoritism.
#toni-morrison
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fromJezebel
1 hour ago

Cross Ballerina Farm with 'Rosemary's Baby' and You Get the New Novel 'Trad Wife'

Saratoga Schaefer's novel reimagines forced pregnancy horror by having the protagonist actually birth and parent demon spawn, subverting traditional tropes while exploring reproductive autonomy through a supernatural lens.
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fromBustle
9 hours ago

The 10 Best New Books Of March

Spring 2024 brings diverse literary releases across romance, literary fiction, and debuts, featuring works by established authors like Abby Jimenez and Rebecca Serle alongside promising new writers.
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fromLos Angeles Times
32 years ago

New Central Library Succeeds as Urban Crossroads for L.A.

The Central Library's public reception contradicts critical reviews, with visitors responding positively to the Pfeiffer design and its urban contribution to downtown Los Angeles.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

They by Helle Helle review a novel to make the reader slow down and take notice

A Danish novel explores the deepening bond between a teenage daughter and terminally ill mother through minimalist prose that captures unspoken emotional intimacy and life's quiet, defining moments.
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fromLos Angeles Times
14 years ago

Bel-Air estate was a nature sanctuary - amid mansions

Gene Stratton-Porter, a bestselling author with 45 million readers, built a castle in 1920s Bel-Air designed as a bird and wildflower sanctuary, exemplifying how wealthy early 20th-century figures committed to nature conservation.
#book-release-delay
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fromwww.npr.org
9 hours ago

10 new books in March offer mental vacations

March book releases offer diverse literary escapes spanning historical fiction, memoirs, and speculative narratives across multiple continents and time periods.
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fromBustle
10 hours ago

Lisa Rinna Reveals Her Biggest 'Housewives' Regret

Lisa Rinna clarifies her authentic personality through The Traitors appearance and reflects on her transformative Real Housewives experience, particularly the Amsterdam glass-smashing incident that fundamentally altered her life and the show.
fromThe Atlantic
9 hours ago

Vigdis Hjorth's Family Secrets

Her writing tends to be classified as virkelighetslitteratur, or "reality fiction," and for good reason. Hjorth makes Norway sound like a small town-the sort of place where your neighbors know you're home if they can see your footsteps in the snow-and the overlap between her life and work has more than once been the literary version of tabloid news there.
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fromBig Think
7 hours ago

From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling

I wanted to write a book about how the smartphone changed the world, but the more I researched, the clearer it became that phones were actually the latest step in this evolution of storytelling technology that stretches all the way back to prehistoric times.
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fromLiterary Hub
9 hours ago

How authors can protect themselves from scams, according to a book publicist.

Publishing scams are increasingly sophisticated, targeting authors with promises of media exposure and book sales through pay-to-play schemes that exploit authors' desires for visibility.
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fromThe New Yorker
12 hours ago

Why a Woman Would Rather Love a Statue Than a Man

Yagi's fiction uses absurd humor and magical realism to explore how women reclaim agency by rejecting workplace exploitation and societal expectations.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Becoming George by Fiona Sampson review the remarkable story of a cross-dressing 19th century novelist

George Sand's life exemplifies self-invention through her transgressive choices, including wearing trousers and pursuing unconventional relationships while establishing herself as a major 19th-century writer.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 day ago

Literature Has a Stay-at-Home-Dad Problem

Stay-at-home fathers are consistently portrayed as incompetent buffoons in literature, rarely depicted as skilled, engaged parents despite their growing real-world presence.
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fromNieman Lab
1 day ago

The Tampa Bay Times starts a monthly "book club" for news stories

Tampa Bay Times launched monthly article clubs at a local bookstore to discuss published stories, demystify reporting processes, and convert engaged readers into newspaper subscribers.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain review virtuoso portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's final year

The Daffodil Days reconstructs Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes's 1961-1962 Devon period through multiple perspectives of those around them, revealing intimate details of their deteriorating marriage and creative output.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77

Dan Simmons, prolific author of science fiction, horror, and thrillers including Hyperion, died at 77 with numerous major literary awards throughout his career.
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fromianVisits
1 day ago

New exhibition explores how early printing developed into readable books

William Caxton revolutionized English book printing in the late 15th century, transforming books from elite luxury items into affordable, widely accessible products through rapid technological advancement.
fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Dilara, the protagonist of this début novel, is consumed by the absence of a stable home in her life. She and her family flee Turkey, where she is from, after a failed coup in 2016. When they end up in Italy, something inexplicable happens: Dilara's bathroom transforms into a cell in an infamous prison on the outskirts of Istanbul.
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fromFast Company
2 days ago

Flourishing is a team effort. Here are 5 tips to grow together

Flourishing emerges naturally when right conditions exist; it requires treating life as a garden to grow rather than a game to win through shared improvement.
#literary-fiction
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fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

Yiyun Li Reads "Calm Sea and Hard Faring"

Yiyun Li reads her short story 'Calm Sea and Hard Faring' from The New Yorker's March 9, 2026 issue, showcasing work from an acclaimed author of eight fiction books.
fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor

Daniyal Mueenuddin joins Deborah Treisman to discuss 'Two Pilgrims,' by Peter Taylor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1963.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

The National Year of Reading celebrates the joy' of books. But let's not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins

Research has linked reading for pleasure in childhood to a host of positive educational and socioeconomic outcomes. But now 14 years after the Department for Education, in a more innocent time, commissioned a chunky report on the matter—reading books for pleasure is an activity in crisis. The culprit usually blamed for this falling-off is the smartphone and its many short-term distractions; the mere presence of a smartphone in the room, recent research suggests, has an impact on our ability to concentrate.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Asako Yuzuki: I'm very far from the ideal Japanese woman'

Japanese novelist Asako Yuzuki's international bestseller Butter, based on a real serial killer case, combines social satire and feminist thriller with detailed food descriptions, capitalizing on growing Western appetite for translated fiction by female Japanese writers.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

I clicked on a button and everything changed': how a DNA test turned my life upside-down

It was another detail that the rest of the family apparently knew but had never told me; they thought I already knew. The biology mattered less to me than the secret. Dad had been adopted, it turned out. A classic affliction of the 1950s, in which young, unmarried couples were forced to give away their newborn babies.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

What we're reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Claire Baglin's 'On the Clock' uses narrow focus on fast-food work to reveal profound truths about contemporary alienation and precarity with compassion and emotional depth.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

How to Put Sex in a Novel

Contemporary literary fiction increasingly avoids depicting heterosexual intimacy while queer novelists freely explore sex's complexities, as exemplified by Jan Saenz's unconventional novel about selling experimental orgasm-inducing pills.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Ben Markovits: I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can't be very good'

Reading shaped formative years through detective stories, fantasy epics, and memoirs that provided companionship and escape during frequent moves and family transitions.
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fromDefector
4 days ago

Confessions Of A Bookanizer | Defector

A reader maintains multiple simultaneous books across formats, frequently abandoning them for new interests, creating a chaotic reading pattern that diverges from conventional sequential completion.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Watching Watership Down on acid with Bez: Shaun Ryder releases new memoir 24 Hour Party Person

I've done more books now, I think, than Shakespeare, sort of. I had a right laugh writing my first book, and people liked it, so when the chance to write another came up, I thought why not? I've got even more mad tales to tell.
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fromArs Technica
4 days ago

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

Dan Simmons, author of the acclaimed Hyperion Cantos, died from a stroke at 77, leaving behind a legacy spanning horror, historical, and science fiction genres.
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fromNature
4 days ago

Brain mysteries and Bronze Age diplomacy: Books in brief

Lionel Penrose's mid-twentieth century research connected genetic abnormalities to hand creases, establishing the hand as a significant diagnostic tool across multiple medical disciplines.
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fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

The Rigor and Love of a Great Editor

Ann Godoff exemplified editorial excellence through complete self-effacement, prioritizing authors' success over personal recognition while building Penguin Press into a prestigious publishing powerhouse.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li audiobook review a deconstruction of grief

My husband and I had two children and lost them both. Vincent, 16, enjoyed baking, while 19-year-old James was a brilliant linguist and a deep thinker. Shortly before Vincent's death, Li had written a memoir about her depressive episodes which led to her own suicide attempts.
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fromScary Mommy
5 days ago

12 Books That Scary Mommy Editors Devoured In February 2026

I opened this book thinking, Eh, I'm a little bit of a people pleaser, sure. By the end, so much of my life and my choices had been explained to me in the most graceful, non-shameful way. I can't recommend Clayton's walk through the fawn response enough. It's educational, yes, but if you've ever been ashamed of how you handle conflict, this is a very healing read.
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fromwww.dailyfreeman.com
5 days ago

Penguin Press founder Ann Godoff, a powerhouse editor of bestsellers and prize winners, dies at 76

Ann Godoff, influential book publisher for over 30 years who founded Penguin Press and published numerous bestsellers and award-winning works, died of cancer at age 76.
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fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

Enough With the Bros

The 'bro' suffix has become a lazy rhetorical device that transforms personal annoyances into social archetypes, preventing genuine critical analysis of why certain behaviors or interests actually warrant criticism.
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fromThe Nation
5 days ago

Has Contemporary Fiction Ignored the Working Class?

Work's grip on life demands vigilance; allowing career to consume identity risks losing oneself entirely to labor's demands.
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fromBustle
5 days ago

"Immersive Reading" Will Finally Help You Open A Book Before Bed Instead Of Scrolling

Immersive reading—simultaneously reading a physical book while listening to its audiobook—enhances focus, retention, and enjoyment for readers struggling with concentration.
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fromScary Mommy
5 days ago

Scary Mommy 2026 Readers' Choice Best Book Subscription Box

Subscription boxes offer curated book selections tailored to specific genres and reading preferences for book enthusiasts.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya review a heartfelt tale of life on the Indian railways

Indian Railways served as a major employer and source of female empowerment in India, particularly in rural areas, while simultaneously representing bureaucratic dysfunction and systemic failures.
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fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

When Did Literature Get Less Dirty?

Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound functioned as a response to the controversial reception of Portnoy's Complaint, with Roth's protagonist expressing regret over writing sexually explicit material that drew accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

These books are pushing boundaries': winners of 30,000 Inclusive Books for Children awards announced

Six female authors won the 2026 Inclusive Books for Children awards, with winning titles featuring diverse representation in children's literature across multiple age categories.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Most Dangerous Books in Society

A study found that reading banned books predicted civic engagement more strongly than personality traits. Reading banned books showed zero correlation with grades, violent crime, or nonviolent crime in adolescents. Reactance theory explains why censorship backfires: Restricted freedoms activate curiosity and thinking.
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fromEsquire
6 days ago

Why Is Taylor Sheridan Writing a Prison Survival Guide?

Taylor Sheridan, who has never been incarcerated, is publishing a humorous prison survival guide co-written with ex-convict Tom Nelson, releasing June 23.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Readers say goodbye to Book World from 'The Washington Post'

The Washington Post's Book World section closure removes a major source of book reviews and recommendations for casual general readers, impacting discovery more than dedicated book enthusiasts.
fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way that radically transforms it. The right work can make a subject that's never crossed my mind, or that strikes me as aggressively boring, into something incantatory, pulsing with meaning.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer review how to make it in crypto

Dan, a 60-year-old cryptocurrency investor in Dubai, recounts his unconventional journey from south London through sports management, failed romance, and encounters with David Bowie, populated by eccentric characters in a narrative driven by sardonic humor.
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fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

Adrian Matejka Reads C. D. Wright

Adrian Matejka reads poetry selections including C. D. Wright's 'Against the Encroaching Grays' and his own poem 'Almost Home' in conversation with Kevin Young.
fromJezebel
6 days ago

Turns Out, When You Write a Novel About Killing a Politician, People Tell You How They'd Do It

When the people who are after me get here, they'll arrest me and put me on trial, or they'll disappear me to some black site. Or they won't bother with any of that and they'll just kill me. All of these seem like plausible outcomes, but in the novel's prologue, the narrator seems much more confident of her success: I am a fucking genius, a gorgeous fucking genius, and the only thing left to do is sit down and write.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review a true Misery' memoir

Stefan Merrill Block's mother withdrew him from school in the 1990s under the guise of nurturing his creativity, but her homeschooling was actually driven by her own emotional needs and isolation rather than educational philosophy.
fromVulture
6 days ago

The Judy Blume Book That Scandalized a Nation

I was wild. My fantasies were wild. She remembered having dinner with her agent, Claire Smith, and Smith's husband in Brooklyn, after both the Smiths had read a draft of Wifey. Everyone was so scandalized by it. But [Claire] was not so scandalized so that she wouldn't sell it. A lot of people wanted me to change my name, warning me I would ruin my lovely career if I published this under my own name.
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fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

What Fetishists Can Teach Us About Consumerism and Desire

Fetish cultures transform ordinary objects into sources of transcendent meaning and sustained erotic power that resist the disappointment of conventional consumerism.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

As If by Isabel Waidner review surreal doppelganger story

As the trophy takes the form of an elusive UFO, Corey Fah an outsider unfamiliar with the baffling inner workings of the system is unable to collect or even confirm the award. Waidner has said that the novel was partly inspired by the experience of winning the Goldsmiths prize for their previous work Sterling Karat Gold, and by the ephemeral nature of success, with its unfamiliar contexts of social power and opportunity.
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fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

At the end of the day [it's] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. You see what you want to see. You might think it's speaking to you, but it's just your imagination.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

This devastating début novel takes the form of an oral history about a tragedy that shatters a family. At its heart is a couple who arrived in the U.S. in the late nineteen-nineties as refugees from Afghanistan. They prospered, and brought up four children in an affluent suburb in Virginia. Rotating testimonies from people they know-family friends, a cousin, lawyers-offer theories about what led to the novel's central catastrophe.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

My rookie era: I wasn't immediately good at oil painting, but it taught me to find pleasure in struggle

Returning to painting through oil classes helped overcome fear of judgment, teaching fundamentals, practice, and acceptance of possible failure to enjoy the creative process.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Mary Gaitskill Reads "Something Familiar"

Mary Gaitskill performs "Something Familiar" from the March 2, 2026 issue and has published eight fiction books, including Veronica and the essay collection Oppositions.
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fromSFGATE
1 week ago

A writer went investigating a homicide case. Instead, he found an SF relic.

A found journal connected to Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters was discovered in a Utah antique store amid a true-crime investigation into a road-trip homicide.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

Artist Steph Littlebird steps into authorship with 'You Are the Land' * Oregon ArtsWatch

Steph Littlebird released You Are the Land, combining her illustration practice with authorship to center Indigenous perspectives rooted in Pacific Northwest heritage.
fromJezebel
1 week ago

The Time I Learned Greek Scholars Are Canonically Hotter Than Roman Scholars

It started with a book launch in 2021. I'd been living in London as a social media journalist when I asked my then-publication's culture editor to send me to one of these exclusive-sounding events, as 1) I'd never been and 2) I just really wanted to be a person who "has a book launch to go to." Thankfully, there was one that exact day-and he put my name on the list for the release of Mary Beard's Emperor of Rome. Huzzah.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

Fantasy is a dominant, all-pervading cultural form offering diverse subgenres, serious artistic value, and lineages from varied creators and traditions.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Books for the Busy Person

Short, compact books and short stories can deliver immersive, rewarding reading experiences even when readers have only brief moments of time.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Last year I read 137 books': could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?

Public tracking and gamified reading goals risk turning reading into a competitive, metric-driven activity that can undermine enjoyment, deep engagement and sustainable reading habits.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Imagining From Multiple Perspectives

Skilled fiction-writers can guide the imagination, cuing readers to use their senses so that they fantasize more richly than they could alone (Scarry 1999, 3-9). If it serves a storyteller's artistic aims, a writer can prompt readers to imagine a scene from several perspectives at once. Creative writers can accomplish this goal by blending appeals to readers' visual and somatosensory (bodily) senses.
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fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Fan letter written by Charles Dickens goes on show

"Miss Havisham is a quite extraordinary figure" she said, "it's just so interesting to see this woman who decides 'I'm independently wealthy and I'm going to have a child even though I haven't got married.' "It's fascinating that a male author came up with the idea of a woman bringing up a beautiful young woman to break men's hearts, to get her revenge on men."
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

A Childhood in Jewish New Orleans

It's a standard trope in portrayals of assimilated Jews to open with a scene built around a Christmas tree. That's how Tom Stoppard's " Leopoldstadt" and Alfred Uhry's " Last Night of Ballyhoo" begin, and also Ian Buruma's memoir about his grandparents, " Their Promised Land." The idea is, as soon as you show that, you've got the audience's full attention, especially if it's a Jewish audience, because it's so peculiar.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Georgi Gospodinov: Jorge Luis Borges gave me an exhilarating sense of freedom'

Early reading fostered a lifelong devotion to books and writing, shaped by adventure, criminology, eroticism, Salinger, Borges, and Bulgarian poets.
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

The Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore

Outside, the Alabama Booksmith is so unassuming it's as if Reiss had forgotten that he was running a retail business: a two-story, nearly windowless structure, surrounded by office parks and parking lots, on a dead-end street in a suburb of Birmingham. Inside, the vibe is half 1970, half 1870, with wood panelling, rattan chairs, and a drop-tile ceiling-but also patterned tablecloths, cozy curtains, a functioning fireplace, and an oversized hourglass.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Another World by Melvyn Bragg review portrait of the broadcaster as a young man

Melvyn Bragg leaves Wigton for Wadham College, embraces Oxford life, explores culture and politics, joins demonstrations, and later reassesses his imperial-minded motives.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Two contemporary novels probe suburban domesticity, revealing secrets, manipulation, and moral ambiguity through slow-burn suspense and darkly comic plotting.
fromFuncheap
1 week ago

Book Talk with Adam Hochschild: American Midnight (Grace Cathedral)

In these turbulent years, democracy was tested by war, pandemic, and violence driven by conflicts over race, immigration, and labor rights. In American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, legendary historian Adam Hochschild brings this moment vividly to life, revealing both the repression that darkened the era and the Americans who struggled to repair a fractured nation.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I'll Be the Monster by Sean Gilbert review are they fantasists or psychopaths?

Glimpse them chatting in a restaurant or posing on Instagram, and you might think they have it all. The pair live in London but often travel, drawing the eyes of other guests, their skin glowing, their limbs artfully at ease. She writes affirmations on hotel stationery; he claims to taste notes of bark and tobacco in his chianti. As Sean Gilbert's dark, observant debut opens in Istanbul, this apparently perfect couple bicker and sweat, for secrets lurk behind their facade and one of them might be murder.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

5 simple tips to hit breakthrough ideas

Most of us think great ideas are conjured from within-some mysterious well of genius possessed by a special few. But if you listen closely to history's most celebrated creators, you'll hear something completely different. They describe their greatest work not as something they conjured or invented, but as something they found. Not creation, but discovery. Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite-read by George himself-below, or in the Next Big Idea App.
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fromBustle
1 week ago

How This Best-Selling Author Wrote The Sapphic WNBA Romance Of Her Dreams

A reassigned sports journalist discovers queer community, romance, and the cultural rise of the WNBA while pursuing a tense attraction to a Sparks star.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

In the age of the rough sex defence', Emerald Fennell's treatment of Wuthering Heights' Isabella Linton is grotesque

Isabella's agency is stripped: she is fetishized, reduced to a submissive object, and treated as a disposable narrative tool rather than a developed character.
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fromIndependent
1 week ago

Paul Mescal's mum invites us to find 'unexpected, unruly and beautiful' joy in the small pleasures of life

A cancer diagnosis transformed a life and, with daily practices and supportive online messages, inspired wise, uplifting poems that find joy amid hardship.
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fromTime Out New York
1 week ago

NYC's top Black and queer-owned bookstore just revealed its best books for Black History Month

Gladys Books & Wine centers Black queer stories, serving as a Bed-Stuy bookstore and wine bar offering community, literary events, and Black love–focused programming.
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fromPoynter
1 week ago

When newspapers cut book coverage, communities lose more than reviews - Poynter

Newspaper book coverage is rapidly shrinking despite a $30 billion publishing industry, with major outlets cutting book sections and reducing book-review staff.
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fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Who Better To Write A Legal Thriller Than A Trial Attorney? - Above the Law

A Tampa attorney published a legal thriller about a charter captain on Anna Maria Island accused of murder amid 1970s drug smuggling and death‑penalty conflict.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Last of Earth by Deepa Anappara review into Tibet's Forbidden Kingdom'

In The Last of Earth, she points her writerly compass towards the mountains of mid-19th-century Tibet a region then closed off to European imperialists to meditate on the chequered history of colonial exploration, cartography and the impermanence of human existence. It's in the nature of white men to believe they own the world, that no door should be shut to them.
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fromCN Traveller
1 week ago

My Favourite Airbnb: Jane Austen's Family Home in Bath

Jane Austen's Bath residence at 4 Sydney Place preserves Georgian features and reflects Bath's social life and Roman and Georgian heritage.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026

Forthcoming notable books include Halldór Laxness's A Parish Chronicle, Helen Garner's collected stories, Hernan Diaz's new novel, and Can Xue's The Enchanting Lives of Others.
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fromPoets & Writers
1 week ago

Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Mollusks and other overlooked marine animals are imagined as conscious protagonists, revealing endurance, emotional life, and human-caused threats to ocean ecosystems.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Lauren Groff on Masters of Short Fiction

Clarice Lispector’s regulated, surreal prose illuminates women’s interior psyches and outsider perspective, while Yoko Ogawa’s novellas probe surreal, disturbing manifestations of evil.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

In Hamnet, Grief Isolates and Art Connects

A family's private sorrow reshapes relationships and identity; a restrained, landscape-driven cinematic rendering lets silence and imagery embody grief.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

15 Years Ago, The Worst Young Adult Sci-Fi Movie Saw The Cynical Future

James Frey's fabricated memoir caused scandal, career fallout, and he then produced a commercially driven YA sci-fi franchise adapted into a film.
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fromMiami Herald
1 week ago

This publisher enlists 'bookfluencers' to choose its titles. Is it working?

Lightly revised rereleases of backlisted young-adult novels, paired with influencer-driven publisher models, can revive titles and reach new generations of readers.
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