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In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
On the evening of August 30, 1918, an assassin shot Lenin twice as he was leaving an armaments factory. The assailant was twenty-eight-year-old Fanny Kaplan, a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries, a rival party to the Bolsheviks....Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
Four hundred years ago Robert Burton concluded his majestic (and majestically unwieldy) treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy with a few words of distilled wisdom that remain as useful for sufferers of depression now as they were then: “Be...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
In “The Biography of a Painting,” an essay drawn from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1956–1957, Ben Shahn remembers his early years as an artist in the 1920s, when he was enamored of Post-Impressionist and Fauvist...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The canvas is flipped from right to left. But the shell is smaller. All morning I thought the shell was the same shell. That it was a seashell. But maybe it’s a snail shell. I knew my placement of the shell on the beach couldn’t have...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
Sjón’s Red Milk casts doubt on whether radicalization can ever be rationally narrated.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
In 1896 the French writer Alfred Jarry gave a speech introducing his play Ubu Roi, a pioneering work of avant-garde provocation, at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre in Paris. He ended with a flourish: “As for the action, which is about to begin,...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
T.S. Eliot prophesied it: “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” In May 2005, when Peter Balakian visited the monument to the victims of the Armenian genocide at Margadeh in the desert of Deir ez-Zor, Syria, he compulsively started...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
To the Editors: I’m grateful to Kwame Anthony Appiah for his kind words about What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea and for his serious engagement with its arguments [“Watch What You Say,” NYR, September 25]. I agree with...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from Bloggin' 'bout Books
Happy October! I hope you're able to enjoy some nice, cool Fall weather where you are. Temperatures here in the Phoenix area have dropped from three digits to only two, so that's something, even if we're still in the upper 90s....
The term “Industrial Revolution” entered modern parlance in 1799, courtesy of the French diplomat Louis-Guillaume Otto. What began […]Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
AI is feared by many – with good reason – because of its potential influence over humans. Are we closing in on the days of Terminator or are we moving towards a Utopia? One off-Broadway play, The Glitch , believes there...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Whatever
You can’t judge a house by its paint job. Or by the nefarious things that have gone on inside said house in the past. Author Beth Cato takes us for a tour in the Big Idea for her newest novel, A House Between Sea and Sky. Follow...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Whatever
If you have Amazon Prime, then you have access to First Reads, Amazon’s program for giving their subscribers an early look at books that will be publishing soon. And starting today and for the rest of the month, that means you have...
Political memoirs or, worse, philosophical treatises by political leaders, are often books best avoided. Yet Anwar Ibrahim’s recent […]Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
As in previous years, artificial intelligence, audio, and edtech are the focus of many 2025 Digital Publishing Award submissions. The post The Digital Publishing Award Program Names Its 2025 Finalists appeared first on Publishing...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from The IndieView
I lived in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles for some time and the Manson story still resonates. At some point I knew I wanted to tackle a similar tale. Sue Hinkin – 1 October 2025 The Back Flap When Lucy’s … Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Book News & Features
A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list.Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The literature of Ukraine in translation has a growing new site of its own, as 'Chapter Ukraine' launches in three languages. The post Ukrainian Books in Translation: ‘Chapter Ukraine’ Is Open appeared first on Publishing...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
A constantly expanding story that never loses its warm human core, King Sorrow is a must-read for horror fans and a welcome return for Joe Hill.Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Equal parts disturbing and moving, The Works of Vermin explores a fantasy city infested by magical pests—including an enormous, poisonous centipede.Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Extremely smart, carefully plotted and well-researched, Atlas of Unknowable Things is an academic horror novel crossed with a conspiracy thriller.Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Bloggin' 'bout Books
Even though it's still in the upper 90s here in Arizona, I'm all about the cozy Fall vibes right now. After a weekend that was rough on members of my Latter-day Saint faith , my heart is longing for all things warm (weather excluded),...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Whatever
Cincinnati is home to many breweries, and two of the most well-known are Rhinegeist and MadTree Brewing. I don’t drink beer, so I’ve never made it a point to visit any of these famed breweries. I always figured there was...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Whatever
For as long as people have been looking up at the stars, there have been thoughts about aliens. Are they humanoid, or completely and utterly different from us? Are they benevolent or world-conquering? Author Becky Ferreira shines some...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
Authors and publishers should come to see their book’s readers as clients and market efficiently to them. A book, though special, is a product, just like a pair of shoes, television set, pizza, or a hammer. Once you set a book that way,...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Whatever
I have a lot of writing and other professional and personal projects to do before the end of the year, and a fair bit of travel in there as well, so I’m going to go ahead and call it: I’m on a blurb hiatus through the end of...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
For a central figure of Impressionism, it is surprising how often Gustave Caillebotte seems to be disappearing offstage. Even in self-portraits he can be hard to catch hold of. In a chilly mealtime painting from 1876, shortly after his...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
he Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts at New York University’s School of Professional Studies has announced their lineup of speakers for next year’s Advanced Publishing Institute, which runs from January 5-9, 2026 in New York...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Book News & Features
House of Nanking has long been known for simple and fresh homestyle multi-regional Chinese food. Now, Peter and Kathy Fang are sharing their story and culinary secrets in a new cookbook.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
Elements of freedom—and struggles for it—are at play among the three finalists named by the Cundill History Prize in Montreal. The post Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize names Its 2025 Finalists appeared first on Publishing...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Fans of complex dystopian fiction will be entranced by Saltcrop , Yume Kitasei’s anticapitalist voyage through a future Earth.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
In Melinda Taub’s fresh spin on Jane Austen’s Mary Bennet, the scholarly lady manages a Frankensteinian experiment gone awry—and falls in love with Georgiana Darcy in the process.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Kaylee Archer’s enchanting debut is a page-turning, Victorian fantasy romance between a werewolf and a witch-werewolf hybrid.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
After fleeing an abusive marriage with her child, Betsy Cornwell transformed a historic knitting factory on the rugged coast of Ireland into a residency for writer-mothers like herself.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Matisse at War is a thoroughly researched and impeccably presented portrait of one of history’s great artists and those closest to him.Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Till We Meet Again is a riveting, skillfully crafted account of one life in World War I that provides insight into the human cost of war.Monday, September 29, 2025 from Whatever
If you missed me on tour (and won’t see me in the next couple of weeks in NYC, Iowa City, San Francisco or Burlington, VT), then here’s the next best thing: An hour-long interview of me, recorded at the first stop of my Tour...Monday, September 29, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
New York Times Games gets off the app and two murders demand to be solved in these gift-worthy puzzle books.
There’s something about old Hong Kong and Shanghai that lend themselves to ghost stories and mysteries. They share […]Monday, September 29, 2025 from The IndieView
Even though I changed names and details, writing those moments meant reliving them. There were days I could barely see the screen through tears. There were moments where I had to quit writing and come back to it another day. …...Monday, September 29, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
1. When did you first become a children's author and how long have you been involved in the world of publishing? I began penning short stories to share with friends and family since well before leaving school, and creative...Monday, September 29, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
In Quan Barry’s The Unveiling , a group of Antarctic castaways hide terrible secrets, and even the ice itself has ghastly history buried within it.