Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
In Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet, the lovers' headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characterizes so much of the production.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
There is widespread relief after Assad's fall, though no one is more aware than Syrians themselves of the dangers and challenges that await them.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
We’ve seen many skirmishes in America’s culture wars over the decades; one recent round, over abortion, was on the ballot in ten states during the 2024 elections. But the most dramatic battle of them all, between two of the twentieth...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
When the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky first saw a tape of Balanchine’s Apollo, he watched in disbelief. Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
Two memoirs by women remembering their youthful relationships with older men complicate the definition and implications of “consent.”Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel's collective conscience.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
My face is a case studyin gravity. A face study. A grave.Effaced, I introduce myselfby name, a quippydelegate, ceci Susan,this lifelong stand-in.Named after my motheror rather, the pseudonym that hidher foreign origin. Shoushik.She’d...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
No artist has tried harder to get photographs and text to bring each other urgently to life than Jim Goldberg.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
sky and congestion up ahead—why wait in line with this chewed boot, this cold breakfast river below and everywhere the straight face of a season passing— long mile separates ice from ice here—maybe a...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley gives full-throated voice to romantic passion and at the same time contains it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
Something has gone terribly wrong. In his 2004 book Why Globalization Works, the economics journalist Martin Wolf wrote that “liberal democracy is the only political and economic system capable of generating sustained prosperity and...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
Eliza Griswold, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, begins her latest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, by announcing her method as “immersion journalism.” The technique, she suggests,...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American sprinter Noah Lyles narrowly won the hundred-meter dash and became the fastest man in the...Thursday, December 26, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
In James Baldwin’s writing and public appearances, the social and personal, the spoken and written dissolve into one.Thursday, December 26, 2024 from Whatever
We here in the Scalzi household don’t typically give too many gifts to each other at Christmas — we have enough stuff — although we’re happy to give them to others, because it’s fun and shows an appreciation...Wednesday, December 25, 2024 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
1. What is your new book, Bedtime Stories For...Wednesday, December 25, 2024 from Whatever
We had family over to the church for Christmas Eve, and it was a evening of food and togetherness and very large inflatable snowmen possibly menacing a very small Santa and his eight electrified reindeer. It’s fun to have your own...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
Everyone has their language pet peeves, those pieces or chunks of linguistic malfeasance that assault our ears and quickly urge us to police the infraction. Stoning is out, but how do we ensure that the abuse of language, at least in our...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from The IndieView
I’m not a beach read girl, so I want to write things that are meaningful and different. Ashley Baker – 24 December 2025 The Back Flap In typical serial killer novels, the victims are a footnote. In this book, they’re …...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
A freewheeling spirit runs through the history of Leverett, Massachusetts, which celebrated its 250th anniversary this year. Named for a colonial governor who advocated for religious tolerance and political autonomy, Leverett, with a...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
A. Rae Dunlap’s The Resurrectionist is a heartfelt yet gruesome historical thriller following two body snatchers as they fall in love and evade Burke and Hare.Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Matty Matheson’s new cookbook highlights the chef’s (and The Bear actor’s) unfussy nature and enthusiasm for no-frills tasty food.Monday, December 23, 2024 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
1. You were a lawyer for 16 years. Why have you now dedicated yourself to writing? I’ve always been a writer. It’s...Monday, December 23, 2024 from The Rap Sheet
Kevin Burton Smith is the Montreal, Quebec-born founder and editor of that essential resource, The Thrilling Detective Web Site , as well as the Web Monkey for The Private Eye Writers of America and a contributor to Deadly Pleasures...Monday, December 23, 2024 from The Rap Sheet
December hasn’t exactly worked out the way I had planned. My hope was to have all of The Rap Sheet’s “favorite crime fiction of 2024” lists, from our various contributors, edited and posted by this point in the month, and be well along...Monday, December 23, 2024 from The Rap Sheet
I continue to track the release of “best crime fiction of 2024” lists. New to this inventory are critic Sharon Richardson’s choices , which follow those of her fellow Crime Fiction Lover contributors Erin Britton and Paul Burke ; Marilyn...Monday, December 23, 2024 from Books
Matthew West, celebrated for his inspiring music, now invites readers to discover the heart of Christmas in his new book Come Home for Christmas. Through heartfelt storytelling and reflections, West encourages readers to renew their...Monday, December 23, 2024 from Whatever
Another year, another instance of Krissy and I waking up our daughter with a cake on her birthday. It’s nice to have little traditions like this. This is also where I reiterate that my kid is the best and that I’m really glad...Monday, December 23, 2024 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Listeners will be immersed in this meditative exploration of time spent in nature—the story of Moomin creator Tove Jansson and her partner Tooti Pietila’s life together on an island off the Gulf of Finland.
In Myanmar today, resistance against the 2021 coup and the military regime, has spread across the entire country, […]Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Whatever
As the year winds down, at least we’re getting some good sunsets to see us off. — JSSunday, December 22, 2024 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
· Though the printing press with movable type was invented around 1450 by Gutenberg in Germany, and though Mexico established the first such printing press in the Western...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from The IndieView
The biggest problem was creating distractions for the savvy readers so they couldn’t guess who the actual bad guy or girl was too early in the book. Different threads, clues, and reasons must be sprinkled throughout the story to keep...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
As Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed south from Idlib Province, the rebels’ first priority was to liberate prisons. From Aleppo to Hama to Homs, videos emerged of fighters breaking down doors and cutting through locks. Detainees streamed...Saturday, December 21, 2024 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
1. What is your book, The Illusion Of Choice , about? The Illusion of Choice explores the relationship and impact the overwhelming amount of information has on today’s society, brought to us through a massive information...Saturday, December 21, 2024 from The New York Review of Books
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual C.L.R. James. They were being filmed by Mike Dibb, who had produced John...
The modern classics of Southeast Asian literature, with the singular exception of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, largely remain a […]Saturday, December 21, 2024 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
Wicked Breaks Box Office Records As Film Classix The Wizard of Oz Turns 85. Now -- The Only YA Book Series Authorized By An Original Cast Member, Jerry Maren. Toy Inventor Mike Ernst Brings The Lovable...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Whatever
When I first saw a trailer for the newest Lord of the Rings movie, I was incredibly excited because it was an animated movie. I could hardly believe they were making an animated LOTR movie. I had never even seen The Lord of the Rings...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Children's Book Council
Let's celebrate Yule and the Yuletide season with some great books!Friday, December 20, 2024 from Whatever
Today is a big day in the Scalzi household: After 22 years, Krissy is retiring from her job as claims adjuster at the Buckeye Insurance Group. This had been a move that was some time in coming; Krissy originally thought to retire a few...Friday, December 20, 2024 from The IndieView
Throughout my experiences, I didn’t have access to any books or literature that was similar to my idea, and I felt that it would be helpful to others to write what I had in my mind. Joshua Winkler – 20 … Continue reading...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Bookbrowse News About Books, Authors, and Book-Related Topics
This year's Booker prize winner will be the Christmas No 1 bestseller, predict UK booksellers. The Booksellers Association (BA) asked bookshop staff which book they think could reach the festive top spot, and Orbital by Samantha Harvey...