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2 hours ago

Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodovar': 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026

Early 2026 fiction offerings center on migration, identity, class, loneliness, and cross-cultural relationships through intimate and generational narratives.
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1 day ago

Books to look out for in 2026 nonfiction

Upcoming memoirs examine trauma, survival, family, fame, and historical memory through personal narratives from survivors, artists, and public figures.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
21 hours ago

How the French fell in love with family-driven memoirs and autofiction | Anne-Laure Pineau

Blurred boundaries between fiction and nonfiction in French literature are prompting bookstores to reorganize shelving and create spaces for autofiction and personal memoirs.
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18 hours ago

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell audiobook review the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

Hamnet centers on Agnes Hathaway's grief and a family's undoing after son Hamnet's death, combining lyrical, immersive narrative, historical detail and sensitive narration.
fromIndependent
16 hours ago

New Irish books on the block in 2026 - buzzy novels to add to your reading list

As the the very proud sponsor of the Newcomer of the Year Book Award, we're always excited to see what new fiction is coming from Irish writers, so it's wonderful to report that there's much to look forward to in 2026.
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fromwww.amny.com
15 hours ago

These were the most checked out library books in New York City in 2025 amNewYork

Our much-anticipated top checkout lists are a testament to the universal joy of reading, and are one of the most direct mirrors we can hold to the books that most capture the imagination of New Yorkers every year, said Brian Bannon, Chief Librarian and Merryl and James Tisch Director of Branch Libraries and Education at The New York Public Library. It's especially fun to see the mix of titles that rose to the top this year.
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22 hours ago

Ocean Vuong, writer: I am a product of the welfare state, which is being abused right now in America'

A novel portrays tenderness, humor, and fleeting joy among marginalized lives while confronting the failed American dream, addiction, dementia, and enduring human connection.
fromFast Company
1 day ago

Top 12 productivity books of 2025 to change your relationship with work and time

Somewhere between endless meetings and half-finished projects, we all went looking for better ways to get things done this year. These are the 2025 titles that helped people stay organized, focused, and finally finish what they started.
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1 day ago

Ice by Jacek Dukaj review a dazzling journey to an alternate Siberia

A 1924 alternate-history thriller follows Benedykt Gierosawski's Siberian mission to find his exiled father amid a spreading sentient cold called the gleiss.
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fromIndependent
2 days ago
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Donal Fallon: The spirit of Dickens' classic lives on in those working towards a fairer society for all children

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Donal Fallon: The spirit of Dickens' classic lives on in those working towards a fairer society for all children

fromBuzzFeed
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My Dad's Life Fell Apart. When He Died, I Logged On To His Email And Made A Shocking Discovery.

Our father's body lay on a plinth the color of gunmetal. He was covered by a simple white sheet up to his collarbone, above which his shaved head was supported by a stone headrest. Looking at him, it was as if his body had shrunk in tandem with his dissembling life. I shivered. The visitation room in Omega Funeral Home was as cold as a meat locker, while outside the rainy season had turned Lagos into a sauna.
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fromwww.berkeleyside.org
1 day ago

Miranda July's All Fours' and extension cords: What Berkeley library patrons checked out most in 2025

Berkeley Public Library's most-borrowed items in 2025 included All Fours, The Message, Hot Mess, laptops, and extension cords.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 day ago

The Writer Fueled by Life's Randomness

Rabih Alameddine invents diverse literary forms while persistently exploring fear, fate's arbitrariness, and how history's sudden shifts irreversibly reshape lives.
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fromPortland Mercury
1 day ago

Escape into Airplane Lust with the Mercury's Favorite Romance Novels of 2025

Romance novels provide escapism through varied tropes, strong character dynamics, and diverse contemporary releases worth seeking from local bookstores.
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1 day ago

Truth in fantasy: what Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials taught us over its 30-year run

The Rose Field concludes Lyra Silvertongue's story, capping two trilogies that achieved major critical acclaim, widespread adaptation, and significant cultural influence.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

Thelma Golden on the Literature of Harlem

Harlem functions as both a tangible neighborhood and an imaginative world that inspires Black artists and is depicted through narratives of struggle, community, and love.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

3 Books to Help You Thrive Amid Pain

Contextually grounded, evidence-informed, compassionate guidance validates experiences, cultivates resilience and compassion, and enhances personal growth, relationships, and values-based living.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

Books to get your mind and feet dancing * Oregon ArtsWatch

Photographic books and archival coaching projects preserve choreography, illuminate choreographic intent, and reveal why people dance across professional, recreational, and therapeutic contexts.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Converts by Melanie McDonagh review the road to Rome Catholicism's unlikely 20th-century resurgence

In the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and Wales became Catholics. Among them were a clutch of literary stars: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and Graham Greene. But there was a whole host of poets, artists and public intellectuals less known to us today, whose going over to Rome provoked envy and dismay.
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fromwww.ocregister.com
1 day ago

Jillian Lauren teases new book after California cop shooting, split from Weezer bassist

Jillian Lauren fired a handgun during an LAPD manhunt, was shot in the arm, faced felony charges, pleaded not guilty, and qualified for a mental-health diversion program.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?

Some adolescents are drawn to conservative, communal religious lifestyles and adopt Amish practices, language, and dress seeking meaning and belonging.
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fromwww.bbc.com
1 day ago

Winnie-the-Pooh brings 100 years of fame to forest

Winnie-the-Pooh debuted on 24 December 1925 and remains a globally beloved character associated with Ashdown Forest, continuing to draw tourism and local economic benefits.
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fromAnOther
1 day ago

Read: Jose Henrique Bortoluci's Heat-Dazed Short Story, Dark Matter

A physicist in Paris suffers cognitive disintegration during an extreme heatwave, losing the ability to read and confronting suicidal thoughts.
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2 days ago

In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger

Gabriele Tergit's The Effingers chronicles affluent Jewish Berlin families' descent from 1878 to 1948, revealing denial and insulation amid rising Nazi danger.
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What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton

A Bouncy 123 by Sade Fadipe will be out in June Adanah and her friend Kolade go running around their village in this colourful picture book set in Nigeria, which captures all the fun of playing outdoors. Written by Sade Fadipe, a Nigerian primary schoolteacher and early reading expert who lives and teaches in the UK.
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fromLindsey Gamble
3 days ago

Audible & TikTok Partner to Bring the Best of #BookTok to Readers - Lindsey Gamble

Audible integrated #BookTok trends into its platform with curated collections, trending carousels, genre microcollections, and visual badges to boost discovery and reach.
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fromThe Mercury News
3 days ago

Former Alameda author Tracey returning to town to discuss new book

A forty-something librarian takes a prairie pilgrimage, falls in love, confronts her mother, and uses footnotes to break narration and engage readers.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
3 days ago

Former Alameda author Tracey returning to town to discuss new book

Nelly, a single librarian in her 40s, travels to a Laura Ingalls Wilder site, discovers prairie realities, falls in love, and confronts her overbearing mother.
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3 days ago

Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen review why was my mother so cruel to me?

Loo Shu-hsin is born into privilege in 1924 her father is a banker in the largely British-run International Settlement of Shanghai but her life is marked by her mother's constant belittlement. Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk, she's told, after speaking out of turn. With a tongue like yours, no one will ever marry you. Her only solace in the household is a nursemaid, Nai-ma, who vanishes
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Why AI Cannot Be Trusted

Proponents of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially individuals with a personal incentive to promote investments in the field, often talk about creating and selling AI products that clients can trust. In so doing, however, they reveal a deep misunderstanding of the nature of trust and what it takes to become trustworthy. To gain truly profound insight into trust, we should look not to Silicon Valley's marketing but to cultural resources that have stood the test of time.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop

Patricia Lockwood reads Elizabeth Bishop’s 'In the Waiting Room' and her own 'Love Poem Like We Used to Write It' and holds major literary prizes.
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fromThe Verge
3 days ago

The best books we read in 2025

Historical blunders over the past 70 years are recounted with humor to make serious mistakes feel absurd and to comfort readers about everyday errors.
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4 days ago

Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune tops 2025 UK bestsellers list

Fantasy, mystery and psychological thriller series dominate the UK's bestsellers list for 2025, topped by Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune. The fifth book in his Thursday Murder Club series secured the top position at 391,429 hardback sales. Adult colouring also had a resurgence this year: colouring books aimed at all ages made it into the top 20 chart, according to analysis by NielsenIQ BookData.
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3 days ago

John Updike's best books Ranked!

Early novels explore aging, religion, sex, art, and familial tensions through varied forms including near-future revolt, single-day perspective, and epistolary fragmentation.
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fromFast Company
3 days ago

Barnes & Noble opened 67 bookstores in 2025, a recent record. Now it's plotting another year of expansion

Barnes and Noble will open 60 new U.S. stores in 2026, continuing a multi‑year expansion driven by a pandemic‑era bookstore boom and #BookTok trends.
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fromPortland Monthly
3 days ago

Portland's Best Bookshops

Portland offers a diverse array of bookstores—from Powell's to many neighborhood shops—each with distinct focuses that inspire unexpected reading discoveries.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Palaver by Bryan Washington review a remix of the author's greatest hits

A guarded son and his estranged Jamaican-American mother reunite in Tokyo, confronting cultural distance, familial dysfunction, and tentative rapprochement through awkward, faltering conversations.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

10 books to help you understand America as its 250th birthday approaches

A curated selection of ten U.S.-focused history books reveals how race, education, and military events shaped the nation's development.
fromOpen Culture
4 days ago

Langston Hughes' Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950

Who doesn't trea­sure a hand­made present? As the years go by, we may begin to offload the ill-fit­ting sweaters, the nev­er lit sand cast can­dles, and the Sty­ro­foam ball snow­men. But a present made of words takes up very lit­tle space, and it has the Ghost of Christ­mas Past's pow­er to instant­ly evoke the sender as they once were. Sev­en­ty years ago, poet Langston Hugh­es, too skint to go Christ­mas shop­ping, sent every­one on his gift list sim­ple, home­made hol­i­day post­cards.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Form a Family Book Club This Holiday Season

A family book club fosters lifelong reading habits, strengthens family bonds, and enhances empathy and social-cognitive skills through shared fiction reading.
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fromBuzzFeed
3 days ago

Only Heated Rivalry Superfans Can Spot The 15 Differences Between The Book And The TV Show

Intensely charged enemies-to-lovers hockey romance brims with locker-room tension, unforgettable intimate moments, quiet confessions, and fervent fan debate over adaptation choices.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Poem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe

Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards me out of water-light, upright, Cratchit-wrapped, a smile to say: I know you. Hello Chris. Ghost in a time-ripped landscape where a low solstice sun spills whisked through a metallic staircase. With joy, the man's smile haunts me for miles a long blasted path, where a dead rat's belly festoons its purple crinoline Christmas hat.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

Is the Dictionary Done For?

The internet disrupted print dictionaries, replacing authoritative print editions with instant, abundant online lexical resources and forcing legacy dictionaries to adapt or perish.
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fromwww.travelandleisure.com
3 days ago

I'm an Expert StargazerHere Are My Top Nighttime Viewing Tips for Auroras, Meteor Showers, and More

Nighttime tourism offers transformative after-dark experiences but requires careful planning around dark-sky locations and moon phases for optimal viewing.
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3 days ago

My big night out: I was hungover and locked in an apartment. The only escape? A high, narrow window ledge

Hungover traveler wakes in Paris and becomes locked inside an apartment by an externally engaged multi-bolt security lock, then tries keys and stays calm.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming

During crises people buy small beautiful comforts like lipstick and romantic fiction, driving significant spikes in romance book sales and sustained market growth.
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fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025

Daily reading for pleasure has fallen steadily for two decades to 16% participation and an average of sixteen minutes per day in 2023.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
5 days ago

Kimberly Warner's memoir, 'Unfixed,' is a meditation on her rare illness and on seeking and finding family * Oregon ArtsWatch

A woman’s chronic vestibular disorder creates constant disorientation that intertwines with searching for a missing biological father, familial grief, and recovery after trauma.
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fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

When a loved one dies, where do they go? A new kids' book suggests 'They Walk On'

Framing death as "walking on" allows grief to coexist with a sense that deceased loved ones continue influencing daily life through memory and ritual.
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fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

Sunday Puzzle: BE-D with two words

All answers are familiar two-word phrases or names with the first word beginning with BE- and the second word beginning with D-.
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fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

"The Welfare State," by Nell Zink

A woman struggles with fear and imbalance on a narrow, mist-shrouded mountain trail while her confident friend remains sure-footed.
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fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

Nell Zink on German and American Stereotypes

Two longtime friends from Bavaria confront clashing personalities and cultural differences during a tense summit walk along Mt. Niesen in the Swiss Alps.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

There's a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable': novelist Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst receives major honours and continues producing acclaimed novels while his earlier works are successfully adapted for stage and screen.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Unseen Tennessee Williams radio play published in literary magazine

Tennessee Williams's early radio play 'The Strangers' foreshadows his later themes—isolation, fear, blurred reality—and employs classic radio-horror theatrical devices.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
5 days ago

Library Lines: Contra Costa branches to take part in Picture Book Month

Reading picture books builds children's vocabulary, comprehension, story-structure understanding, and strengthens bonds through shared experiences and library-supported activities and resources.
fromGameSpot
6 days ago

Save Up To 25% On The Akira Manga Hardcover Edition

While the Akira manga has been available in print for decades, a new Akira Hardcover Edition kicked off earlier in 2025, offering the most authentic presentation of Katsuhiro Otomo's groundbreaking sci-fi saga. If you've ever wanted to experience the full Akira saga, this is one of the best ways to do so--and as luck would have it, you can save a few dollars on these premium hardcover releases. Four volumes
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Each year, word of the year gets darker. Six-seven' may be annoying but it's bucked that trend | Coco Khan

Words of the year chronicle cultural change, revealing shifting priorities, technologies, anxieties, and shared experiences across time.
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6 days ago

From her pen sprang unforgettable females': 16th-century Spanish author's knight's tale given reboot

Sixty years before a gaunt and deluded nobleman from La Mancha was overdosing on tales of derring-do, visiting his madness on those around him and single-handedly rewriting the rules of fiction the deeds of another heroic knight had already made literary history. Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalian de Espana, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.
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fromGameSpot
6 days ago

Become A Pokemon Professor With The Upcoming Pokecology Guidebook

Pokecology is an official illustrated guide on Pokemon habitats; pocket guide volumes provide stats and evolutions; Pokopia and related releases arrive in 2026.
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fromPortland Mercury
5 days ago

Intuition

Secretive Raven and Crow activities at the zoo involve hidden ravens, a silent Raven Facility, mysterious funding, ritual chants, and a possibly mutated condor.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Yael van der Wouden : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens'

Childhood reading ranged from encyclopedias and joke books to Thea Beckman and Douglas Adams, later reshaped by Nathan Englander's powerful novel.
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fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

A Peek at an Alternate Venice

Venice preserves secluded, artistically rich corners—deserted campos, less-traveled islands, and cool churches—that sustain its enduring cultural allure amid tourism and criticism.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

The Guardian view on the rise of romantic fiction: finally getting the respect it deserves

Romantic and women’s popular fiction is gaining overdue recognition and reflects social, economic, and gendered realities across different eras.
fromAnOther
6 days ago

The Puzzle of Fitzcarraldo Editions

In 1941, during the German occupation of France, the then relatively unknown writers Jean Bruller and Pierre de Lescure came together to edit, publish and distribute a book called Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea). The story centred on two family members who refuse to speak to the officer occupying their house - their way of maintaining control of a tense dynamic and a rejoinder to the Nazi propaganda campaigns and newspaper censorship widespread in France at the time.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Near-Death Experiences: When Sales Matter More Than Truth

Trade publishing can sensationalize near-death claims, exploiting vulnerable people and distorting narratives about dying, with serious ethical consequences for grieving or terminally ill readers.
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fromBig Think
6 days ago

Great stories share the revelations in life's quiet undertakings

Characters reveal themselves through what they don't, won't, or can't say as much as through their spoken words.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Best books on leadership of 2025

Every leader leaves their mark on the hearts and minds of a workforce. This can go one of two ways: leaders can leave behind a legacy of inspiration, or infuriation. Based on thousands of perspectives collected from around the globe, Adam created a systemic formula for choosing and earning the lasting impact you want to have on others. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Adam Galinsky, in the Next Big Idea app or view on Amazon.
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fromIrish Independent
6 days ago

David Walliams 'strongly denies' inappropriate behaviour allegations after he is dropped by publisher

David Walliams denies inappropriate behaviour allegations and says he was not informed or involved in a HarperCollins investigation; HarperCollins will not publish his new titles.
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly Burning His House Down (1990)

I gave up on the inter­view and start­ed wor­ry­ing about my life when Hunter Thomp­son squirt­ed two cans of fire starter on the Christ­mas tree he was going to burn in his liv­ing-room fire­place, a few feet away from an unopened wood­en crate of 9‑mm bul­lets. That the tree was far too large to fit into the fire­place mat­tered not a whit to Hunter, who was sport­ing a dime-store wig at the time and resem­bled Tony Perkins in Psy­cho.
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fromDesign Milk
6 days ago

The Penguin x MOEBE Book Stand Helps You Keep Your Place

Penguin x MOEBE Book Stand is a minimalist, multifunctional steel stand that preserves book spines, organizes reading spots, and displays books across interiors.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Children and teens roundup the best new picture books and novels

The Great Christmas Tree Race by Naomi Jones, illustrated by James Jones, Ladybird, 7.99 Star always goes on top of the Christmas tree until new decoration Sparkle kicks off a race. Who will win: Lights, Bauble, Snowflake or Reindeer? A festive picture-book caper with a child-pleasing twist. The Boy Who Grew Dragons: A Christmas Delivery by Andy Shepherd, illustrated by Sarah Warburton, Templar, 12.99 Tomas, Lolli and the dragons in Grandad's garden
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fromGameSpot
1 week ago

Preorders For Diablo 4: Lord Of Hatred's Official Prequel Novel Are Now Live

Lord of Hatred expansion for Diablo IV launches April 28; the prequel novel Diablo IV: The Lost Horadrim releases a week earlier, introducing Skovos Isles.
fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

What Jeffrey Epstein Didn't Understand About Lolita

Some spines are better turned inward. A pederast might hide away Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, in which a middle-aged German author ogles a lithe young Polish boy. A hyper-literate rapist should camouflage his copy of A Clockwork Orange with a more consensual dust jacket. It is therefore curious that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein-who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking minors-flaunted his supposed love of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
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fromTime Out New York
1 week ago

Here are the 10 most borrowed books from the New York Public Library in 2025

NYPL's 2025 most-borrowed books are overwhelmingly fiction, led by a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from Jim's perspective.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

All of The New Yorker, Now Online

The New Yorker made its full archive publicly accessible online, adding over one hundred thousand pieces spanning thousands of issues.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

From toddlers to teens, here's your one-stop shop for young readers

Recommended children's and young adult titles span picture books, middle-grade reads, and YA novels, offering humor, emotional depth, vivid illustrations, and suggested age ranges.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

These sites and apps will help you assemble the perfect holiday reading list

Whichbook employs human readers to classify books along dimensions like moods, levels of violence and sexual content, attributes of the main characters, and length. It's a process Van Riel says artificial intelligence can't yet replicate, though it's still quite mathematical in nature, with new hires guided in tuning their scores to the site's standard. Then, Whichbook users can indicate their own current preferences with a set of sliders to find a set of books that match.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen review a prescient classic of cryogenics

A man chooses experimental suspended animation to cure cancer, awakens decades later to a society where purchased near-immortality creates systemic inequality and commodifies life.
fromNature
1 week ago

Living water and whispering rocks: Books in brief

"Awakening yourself to the whispers of rock", she says, "can transform the way you connect with and understand the world".
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The 'Filthy Little Slum Child' Who Remade the American Right

Norman Podhoretz combined ambitious self-invention, provocative literary style, and political influence, shaping American conservatism while provoking controversy and enduring critical debate.
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fromThe Walrus
1 week ago

Canadian Literature Needs to Stop Talking Only to Itself | The Walrus

Canadian literary culture relies on government subsidies and cultural protectionism, creating an inward-looking, insular national literature with limited international reach.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

A Cartoonist's Complicated Search for the Truth

Immersive graphic reportage reconstructs contested history by juxtaposing divergent eyewitness accounts and on-the-ground reporting to reveal complex, contested truths.
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from48 hills
1 week ago

Tip-top tomes: Our favorite books of 2025 - 48 hills

2025 offered an abundant, steady stream of notable books across genres, with memorable cookbooks emphasizing community, local sourcing, and compelling culinary memoirs.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?

Nonfiction book sales have declined as readers, fatigued by real-world crises, favor escapist fiction and Hollywood-friendly memoirs.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia

Fiction pieces depict characters clinging to simulated roles and surreal coping mechanisms, exposing bureaucratic cruelty, war's absurdities, and gallows humor amid bleak, uncertain realities.
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fromBoston.com
1 week ago

Here are the Boston Public Library's most-borrowed books of 2025

All top ten most-borrowed books at the Boston Public Library in 2025 were written by women, with romance/romantasy occupying the top three positions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Bog Queen by Anna North review a tale that could dig deeper

Bog Queen braids voices—moss, a modern forensic pathologist, and an Iron Age druidine—to examine bodies, landscape, and personal displacement.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal

Home functions as the place where characters resist and suppress genuine emotion, making domestic spaces emotionally inhospitable.
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fromDefector
1 week ago

American Cant | Defector

Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy after exile to settle personal scores and seek return; Olivia Nuzzi linked her post-scandal memoir to Dante.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 week ago

Berkeley couple's new book attempts to define the meaning of home'

Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolas Boullosa document and promote diverse eco-friendly, unconventional homes and minimalist living through self-funded media, a book, and ongoing home renovation projects.
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