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The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024
It’s December, and so the literary internet, such as it is, is awash in best-of book lists. I cannot say that this website is not complicit in this...
lithub.com - 30+ days ago

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Early Hitchcock and Disney films, song 'Singin' in the Rain,' A Farewell to Arms, and more enter public domain in 2025
All of the films, books, art, and sound recordings released in the entire decade of the 1920s are now officially part of the public domain. 1929: the year Popeye made his comic strip debut, Mickey Mouse uttered his first word, and Ernest Hemingway published the landmark novel A Farewell to Arms. As of...
ew.com - 30+ days ago
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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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Strange Women Lying in Ponds Distributing Swords: 5 Fabulous Arthurian-Related Fantasy Books
Hello, my little newts! In honor of the 50th anniversary of one of my favorite movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this time I chose five (“Five...
bookriot.com - 12 days ago
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Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in the books “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Didion, in contrast to her New Journalism...
- 25 days ago
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Rs 1.48 crore fraud: Kushal Tandon, Ankita Lokhande and others duped by energy drink brand; Mumbai Police books 5 people
A celebrity management firm in Mumbai has accused the owners of an Indore-based energy drink brand of fraud, claiming they failed to pay Rs 1.48...
pinkvilla.com - 30+ days ago
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Meta Wins Halt to Promotion of ‘Careless People’ Tell-All Book by Former Employee
In the second annual Libby Book Awards, Libby celebrates the top ebooks and audiobooks of the year. This award highlights the titles most loved by...
bookriot.com - 11 days ago
architecture / books
New Capital
This book explores the global trend of ‘trophy cities’—new capital cities built from scratch to showcase political power and control, often at the expense of local needs. What does a city built from scratch look like? In theory, it’s a chance to create a utopia that respond to the social, economic...
lensculture.com - 12 days ago
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What Was the Top Children’s Book the Year You Were Born? Find Out
At a time when everyone’s stuck at home more than ever before, books are a means of much-needed escape—especially for young minds. They can learn how...
arnienicola.com - 22 days ago
writing
2025 Science + Literature Books
The National Book Foundation, together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the selected books for the 2025 Science + Literature program....
locusmag.com - 30+ days ago
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For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material
The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their family life, and approach to writing. An arrangement of dried flowers pressed between sheets of plastic, the name “Quintana” written in a child’s neat lettering at the top. A...
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The Yin to John Lennon's Yang
Half a century after co-writing “Imagine” with her Beatle husband, Yoko Ono is finally getting the recognition she deservesBy David SheffIn advance...
airmail.news - 15 days ago
technology
This Free iPhone App Makes Taking Notes Easy for Book Lovers
I read 50+ books a year, and this simple Whiteboard app has replaced my messy highlighters and scattered text notes. Here’s my step-by-step system...
makeuseof.com - 30+ days ago
writing / books
Review: The race to decipher an ancient language
Joshua Hammer’s book about cuneiform, a writing system that defined the pre-Hellenic world as much as its monuments did, is a stirring and...
post-gazette.com - 30+ days ago
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From backwaters to IPL centrestage: In Vignesh Puthur, another success story for Mumbai Indians’ scouting team?
Pursuing MA in Literature, Vignesh – son of an auto driver – is yet to play senior-level cricket for Kerala; on Sunday in his IPL debut, the Chinaman...
indianexpress.com - 13 days ago
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Japan’s Word of the Year Has No Rizz
One of the world’s most inventive cultures should have a better phrase to define 2024. It’s the language that gave us the world’s first novel, birthed commonplace words from tycoon to emoji, and produced three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Why, then, is the Japanese Word of the Year such...
bloomberg.com - 30+ days ago
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New 'Hunger Games' prequel asks: How well do we really know our history?
Suzanne Collins has never been subtle with her commentary on propaganda and censorship. Her latest book, Sunrise on the Reaping, is no exception. The importance of appearances is woven into the very fiber of The Hunger Games, with the televised death match fought by children expertly crafted into a...
npr.org - 19 days ago
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Author Clay Risen discusses his book 'Red Scare' on the story of McCarthyism
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources. LEILA FADEL, HOST: A new book by journalist Clay Risen brings back to life a period of American history after World War II known as the...
npr.org - 17 days ago
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2025 BIPOC Horror Novels for the Read Harder Challenge
Horror fans, are you ready to embark on another year of Read Harder Challenges? The 2025 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge features a lot of great...
bookriot.com - 30+ days ago
lifestyle / books
What are the best mountaineering books? 10 high-altitude classics for armchair adventurers
For whatever reason, most people don’t have ambitions to be thrown into committing and terrifying tussle with a Himalayan mountain, battling upwards...
advnture.com - 11 days ago
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Weekend in Princeton -- Chances for Kids to Take Center Stage
Princeton, NJ – As always, our weekend events calendar offers plenty of choices for adults of all ages. There’s a serious lecture on a fascinating...
tapinto.net - 16 days ago
writing
When the best books of 2024 meet the most anticipated of 2025
Welcome to the Year in Reading, 2025.But as we’re still in that odd antechamber of in-between time when year-end book lists bump up against...
ocregister.com - 30+ days ago
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Lithuania Publisher Drops Vance Memoir to Protest Ukraine Policy
A publisher in Lithuania, a frontline NATO ally, is removing US Vice President JD Vance’s memoir from bookstores as a response to Washington’s...
bloomberg.com - 30+ days ago
shopping
25 Books by Asian and Pacific Islander Authors Everyone Should Read
Growing up in the 1990s in the United States, I never saw myself represented in entertainment as the main character. There certainly wasn’t a list of...
www.rd.com - 30+ days ago
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Parade's Year In Books: 2024 Roundup
Parade gathers together links to all the best book coverage of 2024. Here is Parade's year in books: a roundup of our best coverage in 2024. This year...
parade.com - 30+ days ago
shopping
The Best Fiction Books Our Editors Can’t Wait to Read on Vacation
Throw any of these beach reads into your weekender bag this summer. All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. If you purchase something through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There’s nothing quite like setting up your beach...
cntraveler.com - 30+ days ago