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...
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...
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 .
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'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 .
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 …...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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.