System of a Down singer Serj Tankian's new book details band's up and downs, ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Before releasing new memoir "Down With the System" on May 14, Tankian spoke about why he's optimistic about Armenia, and whether we might see another album from System of a Down. .. read more..
'Fallout' is fun, but the reality of a post-nuclear apocalypse is nightmare fuel
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Prime Video's hit show "Fallout" and other pop culture depictions of the post-apocalypse are pretty far from reality, as this writer learns from Annie Jacobsen's "Nuclear War: A Scenario." .. read more..
Gavin Newsom is writing a book. Is he hoping to take a page from Obama?
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Ambitious politicians often publish an autobiographical book as they explore whether to launch a presidential campaign. Will California's governor be next? .. read more..
The week's bestselling books, May 12
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 12, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. .. read more..
Opinion: For the greats of the jazz age, life on the road was perilous as wel...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong created a template for what it means for a musician to be 'on tour.' How much of their accounts was pure myth? .. read more..
Whoopi Goldberg will never stop grieving her mother's and brother's deaths
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Whoopi Goldberg discusses her new memoir, 'Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me,' her political activism and her Broadway aspirations. .. read more..
The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from ...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
An absorbing study of five Labour radicals – Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell, Ken Livingstone, plus Benn himself – makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises Corbyn’s years as the party’s leader This might seem like an eccentric book. As Labour prepares for ... .. read more..
Chaos ensues at ‘Fyre Festival of books’ conference in Denver that left multi...
Saturday, May 4, 2024
A book lovers’ conference in Colorado is being ripped on social media after the event descended into a disappointing catastrophe that some dubbed “the Fyre Festival of books” — and that even left one ... .. read more..
Queen City Crime: Salacious testimony from 1929 murder trial kept at UC rare ...
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Testimony from the brutal 1929 murder of OSU coed Theora Hix live on in booklet produced for details-hungry readers in trial against James Snook ... .. read more..
Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion’
Saturday, May 4, 2024
The author of bestseller Yellowface on her agent’s fears about publishing the novel, the joys of a social media purge and being a workaholic who gets bored easily Rebecca F Kuang, 27, is an American writer. She and her family emigrated to the US from Guangzhou, China, when she was four; she grew ... .. read more..
Books in Barbershops | 'It's not up to the school district alone'
Saturday, May 4, 2024
National Reading Month just concluded, but My Brother’s Keeper of Tulsa has joined forces with Reading Partners Tulsa to start an initiative called Books in Bar ... .. read more..
Books Galore celebrates Free Comic Book Day with the community
Saturday, May 4, 2024
A local comic store is celebrating Free Comic Day with the Erie community. Free Comic Book Day is a once a year event on a Saturday in May. Books Galore has a selection of free comics that are ... .. read more..
Where to start with: Franz Kafka
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Inscrutable bureaucracy and monstrous insects may not sound immediately appealing, but once you’re lost in Kafka’s world you won’t want to escape Kafka has become such a cultural icon that even the most private, obscure, or fragmentary of his writings have reached huge audiences: diaries , letter... .. read more..
Should plants be given rights? What new botanical breakthroughs could mean
Saturday, May 4, 2024
They can communicate with each other about threats, summon help from predatory killers – and some can even count – but does this mean plants are conscious? Last month, at a gathering at New York University, a group of prominent biologists and philosophers widened the perimeter of a very... .. read more..
2 Books for Rebels
Saturday, May 4, 2024
I recommend these books to stiffen your spine in the face of what and whoever wants to stifle your spirit, usually while telling you that it’s for your own good. Cluny Brown is not cunning or crafty; ... .. read more..
‘I can say things other people are afraid to’: Margaret Atwood on censorship,...
Saturday, May 4, 2024
At 84, The Handmaid’s Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why “the orange guy” can’t be allowed back into the White House “I’m the great sage on top of the mountain,” Margaret Atwood says with a smile, on a video call from her home in Toronto. “If you’ve... .. read more..
Tom Gauld watches a high-risk publisher at work – cartoon
Saturday, May 4, 2024
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The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth review – bound to be brilliant
Saturday, May 4, 2024
From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books As well as the stories inside books, there are the stories behind them – tales of printers, binders, typesetters and paper-makers who are mostly unheard of. Adam Smyth, a literature professor who is also part of... .. read more..
10 best apps and websites for downloading free books in 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
If you're an avid reader, then you're always looking for new books. Here are 10 websites and apps where you can score free e-books. .. read more..
PEOPLE Picks the Best Books to Read for Mother's Day
Saturday, May 4, 2024
From classic novels to memoirs and children’s books, if you need a gift for a special mom in your life — or yourself — we've got you covered ... .. read more..
Could a bibliophile learn to love books arranged by color?
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Three serious readers tried out the longstanding and highly controversial trend of organizing their books by color. .. read more..
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Friday, May 3, 2024
Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman; Are You There by Samantha Fain; Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips; All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney; Poems 2016-2024 by JH Prynne Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman ( Carcanet, £11.99 ) Waterman’s fourth collection opens with a series o... .. read more..
13 Books We Read This Week
Friday, May 3, 2024
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'Harry Potter' set at an HBCU? LaDarrion Williams wrote the book he always wa...
Friday, May 3, 2024
'Blood at the Root,' LaDarrion Williams' first novel in a three-book deal — a series that centers on a Black boy in a YA fantasy saga — is the kind of fiction he wishes existed when he was a kid. .. read more..