Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
In recent days the Trump administration has ramped up its attacks on higher education. On June 26 the Justice Department announced that it is investigating the University of California system on the grounds that its pursuit of ethnic and...Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Books
JP Pokluda opens up about spiritual warfare, deliverance, and the unseen battle raging on America’s campuses.Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The International Publishers Association's' (IPA) Kristenn Einarsson calls Boualem Sansal's incarceration 'an affront to a literary ambassador of Algeria.' The post IPA Joins in Condemnation of Boualem Sansal’s Upheld Sentence...Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The 40th Bienal do Livro reportedly drew 740,000 attendees, a 23-percent increase over the previous iteration in 2023. The post June Showcases Many of Brazil’s Literary Interests appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Susan E. Clark’s illustrated, pocket-sized guide to clouds both explains meteorological science and marvels at the poetry of the sky.
Bali 1952: Through the Lens of Liu Kang documents a seven-week trip to Java and Bali in 1952 […]Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Bloggin' 'bout Books
Happy Tuesday, book people! Can you believe it's the first of July already? It's hotter than the dickens here in the Arizona desert. It's 110 degrees outside and, after running errands out in the heat (not my idea), my brain is...Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from The Rap Sheet
Organizers of this year’s Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference (August 21-24) have released their list of finalists for the 2025 Silver Falchion Awards. There are 17 categories of nominees, but below are two of particular...Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Whatever
Hop on board for author Matthew Kressel’s newest ride through the galaxy, Space Trucker Jess. In this Big Idea as he takes you through not only his writing process for this particular story, but on a journey through a high-concept...
That Before Colonization can be read in several ways is to its favour, but also makes it hard […]Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
What Trump was trying to demonstrate in Los Angeles is that he can project his armed power into every American community at any time.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
For authors looking to sell more books, they will wonder how to go about this. The answer is simple:...Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
On Wednesday, June 11, just a few days before Father’s Day, two sisters named Jaslyn and Kimberly found themselves in the parking lot of a car wash in Culver City, Los Angeles, trying to explain to the assembled crowd what their dad...Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Bloggin' 'bout Books
This healing, heartwarming classic Japanese novel has been getting a lot of buzz lately. I rarely do book spotlights anymore, but The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa seems to merit it. If there's anything the world...Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
Among the latest academic publishers to sign on with ResearchGate's Journal Home is Hogrefe Publishing's 15-journal stable of publications. The post Berlin’s ResearchGate and Gottingen’s Hogrefe Publishing: New Partnership...Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
What do a former nun, a freelance book editor and Mr. Darcy’s son have in common? They all know how to crack a case.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Plus, the latest from Simon Toynes, Mark Billingham and Martin Walker in this month’s Whodunit column.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
The financial fault lines of American society power these piercing, poignant suspense novels.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Lovers of subtle psychological dramas about the interior lives of young women will be captivated by Until Alison ’s honesty.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
'Opt-outs for religious objections will chill what is taught in schools,' writes PEN America's Elly Brinkley on 'Mahmoud v. Taylor.' The post The US Supreme Court Supports Parents on LGBTQ Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .Monday, June 30, 2025 from Whatever
Have you ever had one of those places you want to go to, but never get around to checking out, and suddenly a year has passed and you’ve still never been? That’s how it was for me and Grist, a restaurant in downtown Dayton...Monday, June 30, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
This year includes a series of special events around the 25th anniversary of the Goldschmidt program for literary translators. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse, Paris, and Berlin to Celebrate Goldschmidt’s 25th appeared first on...Monday, June 30, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The second major phase of Sharjah's 'Onshur' accelerator graduates a 12-publisher class chosen for market traction. The post Sharjah’s ‘Onshur’ Cheers a ‘Scale Track’ of Publishers appeared first on...Monday, June 30, 2025 from Bookbrowse News About Books, Authors, and Book-Related Topics
The American Library Association's 2025 Annual Conference, held in Philadelphia from June 26–30, found attendees simultaneously anxious about the future and in a fighting mood, with multiple presenters describing librarians as the...Monday, June 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Get your book club laughing and crying with these four stirring novels that run the full range of emotions.Monday, June 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
In Claire Jia’s incisive and witty debut, former best friends Lian and Wenyu are reunited when Wenyu returns to Beijing for her engagement party, setting the two down a reckless path.
It’s customary to begin writing on North Korea by acknowledging how difficult it is to get reliable information […]Monday, June 30, 2025 from Whatever
July 4 is most of a week away, so I was not anticipating that outside my hotel window last night would be a full-fledged professional fireworks display. But it turns out the hotel I was at, was next door to a Masonic Temple compound, and...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
I can remember when I was in high school and I told people I wanted to be a writer — a sports journalist — and I received reactions of caution. “Writing doesn’t pay,” I would hear. “Getting a job at a newspaper in New York City is really...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from The IndieView
I wanted these characters to seem like they could be your own family members, or someone in your sphere, with issues that are real and familiar. L.A. Arbuckle – 29 June 2025 The Back Flap Neva Stevenson’s 25 years of …...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
Some years ago I published a book called New York City of Trees. On facing pages of photographs and text, it presented portraits of fifty-five trees in the city’s five boroughs. One was of a Callery pear in the Chelsea neighborhood of...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Whatever
Very different from the last View From a Hotel Window I posted, seeing that one was from Venice, Italy. This one is greener, though. And has a parking lot! Very few of those in Venice, I have to say. Why am I here? Because of the Big...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
On the morning of December 31, 1999, hundreds of people gathered at the base of the Panama Canal Administration Building, a sweeping, colonial-style beige edifice carved into a steep hill on the edge of Panama City and flanked by an...
The new exhibit at Hong Kong’s Palace Museum is somewhat undersold by its title: “Wonders of Imperial Carpets”. […]Friday, June 27, 2025 from The Rap Sheet
(Editor’s note: This is the 189th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books.) By Peter Handel English novelist and short-story author J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) left behind a body of work that...Friday, June 27, 2025 from Whatever
I was traveling much of June, and as a result we have an extra-large collection of new books and ARCs to consider here at the end of the month. What in this double stack of reading goodness would you like to take on in this final weekend...Friday, June 27, 2025 from Books
Candace Cameron Bure shares how Scripture carried her through grief, parenting, and pressure — and why lasting joy starts with 10 minutes in God’s Word.