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The Backlist: Reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Blind Assassin’, with Ashley Winstead
Ashley Winstead and Polly Stewart discuss Atwood's sprawling, genre-hopping novel. Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin opens with one of the best...
crimereads.com
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The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
This week’s bestselling books story is a lot like last week’s: all three of Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean books ranked on all five lists...
bookriot.com
@ 30+ days ago
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The Scars of Evil
By Julian EvansWar is, as Martha Gellhorn wrote, “a horrible repetition” but it’s also the ultimate dice man, deciding participants’ fate by good...
airmail.news
@ 30+ days ago
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It's a publishing fairy tale. 'Hansel and Gretel' is reimagined by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak
An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never met: Stephen King and the...
apnews.com
@ 30+ days ago
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30 Poetic Girl Names You'll Absolutely Adore
Are you dreaming of a name that feels like poetry in motion? These 30 poetic girl names are brimming with beauty, meaning, and a touch of...
thrivinginparenting.com
@ 30+ days ago
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'Hansel and Gretel' Picture Book Due This Fall from Stephen King and Maurice Sendak
In a surprise announcement and pairing, HarperCollins has announced the fall publication of Hansel and Gretel, a Brothers Grimm reimagining by horror...
publishersweekly.com
@ 30+ days ago
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How Homer’s Epics Survived After the Fall of the Ancient Greek World
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were the two epics that brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world and served as the foundation of...
greekreporter.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Must-Read Books Coming Out in February 2025
From a gorgeous special edition with exclusive bonus content and an epic series conclusion, this February is chock-full of riveting new book...
simonteen.com
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How Romantasy Seduces Its Readers
The literary genre has skyrocketed in popularity, with titles dominating best-seller lists and commanding billions of views on TikTok. What’s behind the allure? A...
newyorker.com
@ 30+ days ago
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5 Nonfiction Reads Perfect for Black History Month (Or Any time At All)
If you’re looking to brush up on your history during Black History month, check out this short list of five recently released nonfiction books,...
hachettebookgroup.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Living to Just Work: ‘Make Your Own Job’ by Erik Baker
You’re tired. Perhaps you’re on your feet all day, or sit in a car for most of the night. Maybe you wake up...
zyzzyva.org
@ 30+ days ago
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A Revelatory Way of Understanding the Black Experience
Imani Perry’s latest book examines the intersections between the color blue and the history of her people. When I was living in West Philadelphia...
theatlantic.com
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"Ribbons of Rust" revisits The Beatles’ roots and the sounds that shaped them
In terms of legacy-making months, February has always been good to The Beatles. The band’s triumphant 1964 appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" will always...
salon.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Books vs. Brain Rot: why it's so hard to read : It's Been a Minute
Data from Gallup and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that Americans are reading fewer books and spending less time reading than ever. There's been...
npr.org
@ 30+ days ago
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Twin Cities weekend events: Valentine's Day dates, romance book fair, "Love is Blind" watch party
Oscars season is upon us — and if you're behind on the nominees, there's a way to watch five in just 90 minutes this weekend. What's happening:...
axios.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Comics Classic ‘Billi 99’ Returns to Print After 34 Years
Detroit in the late 1980s was the perfect setting for urban dystopian fiction. Its postindustrial landscape, rough street life, and corrupt politics...
publishersweekly.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Does the rise of Onyx Storm signal the end of the book snob?
“Do you think Type is selling Onyx Storm?” I had sent this text to a friend – a criterion collection kind of guy who wears his...
theglobeandmail.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Amazon Deals: Anker 10,000mAh Portable Charger only $ 13.35 w/coupon, Blink Mini smart security camera only $ 19.99, Books, games & movies BOGO50% off
Amazon has some excellent deals! Read on for a list of top buys....
wral.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Prisons, Pardons, Parole, Probation—in the Jim Crow Era and Today - Yale University Press
Scott W. Stern— It is a shameful yet widely recognized fact that the United States incarcerates its residents at a rate far beyond that of...
yale.edu
@ 30+ days ago
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Savannah Guthrie is stepping away from Today for a reason that's deeply important to her
NBC host Savannah Guthrie has announced that she will be taking some time away from hosting Today as she juggles her career. The broadcast journalist...
irishstar.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Pagan Kennedy's 6 favorite books that inspire resistance
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....
theweek.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Jo Nesbo's new book 'Blood Ties' begins with a mass murderer ready to start a family
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Jo Nesbo about his new thriller, Blood Ties. In it, two brothers with a dark history stand in...
npr.org
@ 30+ days ago
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Book Club Picks for February 2025
The book: The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz Our reviewer says: “Obligations fall heavily upon the characters in Muñoz’s deeply affecting collection....
publishersweekly.com
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IDW Publishing takes a liberty with Spock that doesn't work
IDW Publishing has been delivering some unique takes on our favorite characters from Star Trek, even bringing back Avery Brook's Captain Sisko and...
redshirtsalwaysdie.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Panel Mania: 'The Girl Who Flew Away' by Lee Dean
Lee Dean’s The Girl Who Flew Away is a moody, stylishly crafted graphic novel about a young woman of mixed race who struggles to...
publishersweekly.com
@ 30+ days ago
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5 New Mystery, Thrillers, & True Crime Adaptations To Stream
I decided that with everything going on in the world, so much was going to get lost during the start of the year that I’...
bookriot.com
@ 30+ days ago
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5 absorbing books to read this February to help you escape the chaos
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theweek.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Goodbye, Goodreads: Five New Reading Tracker Apps to Try
Once upon a time , Goodreads was the holy grail for tracking books, in addition to being an all-around bookish website. Many readers, however, fell...
bookriot.com
@ 30+ days ago
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‘The Consequences’: Giving Voice to Ghosts
I have spent the better part of my 45 years along Highway 99 in Elk Grove. My corner of the Central Valley lies just off the Bond...
altaonline.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Eve L. Ewing! Pankaj Mishra! A history of nudity! 27 new books out today.
It’s another week in a year that feels, already, like multiple years have passed, a year of head-scratching and head-spinning tumult. In time s...
lithub.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Era of Magic and Science in Los Angeles
I came to California at 15, from an East Coast town I remember mainly for gray skies and short tempers. It was 1968. Back East, I’d...
altaonline.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa
H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds has terrified and fascinated readers and writers for decades since its 1898 publication and has inspired numerous...
openculture.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Salman Rushdie wrote about his attempted murder. Now he will face his attacker in court
A trial has begun for the man accused of violently stabbing Salman Rushdie onstage at a literary event in 2022, which left the British author permanently...
npr.org
@ 30+ days ago
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8 Contemporary Novels with Omniscient Narrators - Electric Literature
The omniscient, intrusive narrative voice was common to many novels dating to and before the early 1900s: the sweeping perspective of a narrator who...
electricliterature.com
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Move Quickly And Quietly! The Latest And Greatest Kindle Paperwhite Is Finally On Sale
With a waterproof body and 12-week battery life, readers call it the “ultimate e-reader for every book lover.” Physical books are great and all, but...
huffpost.com
@ 30+ days ago
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This Stock Has A 6.49% Yield And Sells For Less Than Book
Ford Motor has been named as a Top 10 dividend stock, according the most recent Dividend Channel '’DividendRank'' report. The report noted that among the...
forbes.com
@ 30+ days ago
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New Books by MWA Members - February 2025 - Mystery Writers of America
Happy New Year!! Here are the February 2025 books by some of our members. They may all be found at your local Independent Bookstore. Visit this...
mysterywriters.org
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So many unmarried men
In the 1950s, the philosopher Mary Midgley did something that, according to philosophical orthodoxy, she wasn’t supposed to do. In a BBC radio script...
aeon.co
@ 30+ days ago
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6 Must-Read Fiction Books by Black Authors
If you learn history best through fiction and want to observe Black History Month, here are six books you should read. Explore the rich tapestry...
hachettebookgroup.com
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The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind
Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a...
mit.edu
@ 30+ days ago
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How to See the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks in Love
“Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides — the seeming realities of this world,” Saul Bellow insisted in his magnificent...
themarginalian.org
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Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92
Tom Robbins dazzled millions of readers with the whimsy and imagination in his bestselling novels, such as 1984's Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, from 1990,...
npr.org
@ 30+ days ago
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in central London. Crossing...
smithsonianmag.com
@ 30+ days ago
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How Bookstores Change the World
In the creepy Netflix series You, which I’m slightly embarrassed to say I’ve watched one season of, manager and book nerd Joe Goldberg...
currentaffairs.org
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Tom Robbins, bestselling PNW novelist, dies at 92
Tom Robbins, the bestselling novelist whose early books defined the 1960s for a generation and whose publishing career spanned more than 50 years,...
yakimaherald.com
@ 30+ days ago
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Interview with Casey Mulligan Walsh, author of All She Ever Wanted, Everything She Feared - Women Writers, Women's Books
Interview by Morgan Baker If you read “The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared,” and you should, it may seem like the...
booksbywomen.org
@ 30+ days ago
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Have You Ever Read a Book So Good It Makes You Mad?
Despite reading more than a hundred books a year, most of the time , I read pretty casually. Usually, I can put down a book and...
bookriot.com
@ 30+ days ago
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The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
A new month has brought a new list of the most read books on Goodreads. Kind of. You see, a few of the top 5 are...
bookriot.com
@ 30+ days ago
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This Week’s Bestsellers: February 3, 2025
Crash Landing on You Freida McFadden’s latest psychological thriller, The Crash, tops our trade paperback list. It’s a “solid if familiar outing,”...
publishersweekly.com
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Ian McEwan's next novel, 'What We Can Know,' is science fiction 'without the science'
NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a...
apnews.com
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