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Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native American and First Nations authors are reshaping its otherworldly (but still often Eurocentric) worlds.Friday, August 14, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker; The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky; The Space Between the Worlds by Micaiah Johnson; The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez; and Seven Dials by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam In Sarah Pinsker’s debut...Friday, August 14, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Four days after the Zimbabwean writer and film-maker made the Booker longlist, she was arrested. She talks about protest, Africa’s film industry and her hopes for her country Four days after learning that her novel, This Mournable Body ,...Friday, August 14, 2020 from NYT > Books
Three new books — by Jennifer Ackerman, Sarah Maslin Nir and Patrik Svensson — explore some familiar and some less known members of the animal kingdom.Friday, August 14, 2020 from NYT > Books
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.Friday, August 14, 2020 from NYT > Books
Wolfram Eilenberger’s “Time of the Magicians” elegantly traces the life and work of four figures who transformed philosophy in the 1920s.Friday, August 14, 2020 from NYT > Books
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.Friday, August 14, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
This novel about twin sisters shows how potent an influence religion has been on the imagination of the quintessential gay writer of our time In his landmark 1982 novel A Boy’s Own Story , Edmund White wondered: “What if I could write...Friday, August 14, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Dancing, blue turtles and disreputable backstreets ... a powerful writer journeys down Colombia’s great river The Magdalena is the great arterial river of Colombia. Rising in the rugged moorlands of the Andean páramo 12,000ft above...Friday, August 14, 2020 from NYT > Books
The process of publishing an excerpt from the author’s new novel was just as mysterious as the writer herself.Friday, August 14, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Quirklogic Papyr is a new 13.3 inch e-note that is using the Sony Digital Paper shell and internals, but using the software in new and innovative ways. They have the standard note taking app, and also Google Chrome to browse the web....Friday, August 14, 2020 from NYT > Books
HBO’s new horror series sends a Black family on a quest across 1950s America, where anyone they see might be a monster.Friday, August 14, 2020 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
“I know where the skeletons are buried,” he writes, “because I was the one who buried them.”Friday, August 14, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Barnes and Noble has just published a rare firmware update for many of their Nook e-readers. Software update 52.0.78 is being pushed out and includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements. One of the most notable is author names always...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from The eBook Reader Blog
One of the main changes with the latest 5.13.1 software update for Kindles was the addition of some new features for kids when using a child’s profile. It wasn’t specifically mentioned in the release notes, but one of the...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from The Nook Blog
1. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer. A return to the world of Twilight is here with the release of Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale takes on a new twist when we read it from Edward’s point of view, as we […] The post The Most...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
He was a Marxist revolutionary and minister in Afghanistan’s short-lived communist government. But Sulaiman Layeq spent the last decades of his life writing an epic poem about an Islamist insurgent.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Novelist Lynn Steger Strong on the revolutionary passivity of Rachel Cusk, Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney — how we've misread them and what comes next.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The wife of the early colonist, Elizabeth, is the subject of Grenville’s new novel: a dance between history and fiction that was the topic of our book club Kate Grenville may have featured the corrupt early colonist John Macarthur in her...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Drawing on testimonies from rebels, Marjoleine Kars' riveting "Blood on the River" recounts an 18th century revolt in Guyana that almost succeeded.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
H.P Lovecraft, the writer who inspired the HBO series "Lovecraft Country," was a virulent racist with a complicated legacy. Here's what you need to know.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Waldie, whose paean to his native Lakewood, "Holy Land," was a 1990s classic of Los Angeles writing, pulls it off again, though a little more darkly.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The French artist Emma, famous for her comic on the ‘mental load’ , illustrates how certain ‘friendly’ remarks can belittle women in the workplace Interview: meet the feminist author whose comic strips hit home The Emotional Load and...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
North Korea's dictator reportedly described his bond with Trump as something out of a “fantasy film," the famed Watergate journalist will reveal in "Rage."Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
“The boundaries between subjects are really artificial constructs by humans, like the boundaries between colors in a rainbow.”Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Novel about vampire Edward was shelved for 12 years after online leaks but has become an immediate bestseller – and author ‘wants to write more’ Stephenie Meyer has revealed she has plans for at least two more books in her vampire saga...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
Two of the world's most beloved celebrities are facing reckonings that call into question the validity of their public personas.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
A poem that reminds us there is always more to come.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
When it comes to nightmare nuptials, “The Guest List” takes the cake.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
Of course they are — and this summer, more than ever, indulge in some page-turning escapism.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Microsoft Surface Duo is one of the most eagerly anticipated smartphones of the year. It features twin 5.6-inch OLED displays with a resolution of 1800 x 1350 with a 4:3 aspect ratio that connect together to form a 8.1-inch overall...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Characters are tethered to a virtual world of surveillance and misinformation in an exhausting satire on technology This novel starts off annoying in one way, becomes annoying in a whole other way, and ends up as probably the most...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The story, told with free-wheeling gusto, of four German thinkers – Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein – before the dark decade of the 1930s Wolfram Eilenberger’s new book offers us a group portrait...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from NYT > Books
Through articles, a book, a play and more, a Times special project commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment focuses on lesser-known women who were crucial to the fight.Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
After the lockdown, hundreds of delayed titles are expected this autumn including many household names vying for Christmas success From Richard Osman’s first crime novel to Caitlin Moran’s new memoir, almost 600 hardbacks are due to be...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from The Nook Blog
So, your kid has read all the Wimpy Kid books, devoured everything ever written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier, and can’t get enough Dog Man—you’re not alone. Graphic Novels for young readers are having a moment and it’s about time!...Thursday, August 13, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Kids are going to go back to school soon. Some schools are opening their doors to students, while others are going to be doing distance learning. English classes tend to have classic books in their curriculum and Penguin Random House has...Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Xiaomi Mi Reader features a 6 inch E INK capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels at 212 PPI. It has a front-lit display, which has a slider bar in the drop down menu, you can configure how bright you...Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from The eBook Reader Blog
This year color E Ink has made a resurgence with the recent release of the Poke2 Color and PocketBook Color, but whatever happened to the advancement of flexible E Ink screens? The Kobo Forma was the first and only ebook reader under...Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from NYT > Books
In “City at the Edge of Forever,” Peter Lunenfeld explores Los Angeles in a series of essays about the idiosyncrasies of a place that defies categories.Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Books: Ebooks | theguardian.com
The Reclaim Her Name project, marking 25 years of the Women’s prize for fiction, will introduce titles including Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans Middlemarch is to be published for the first time in almost 150 years under George Eliot’s...Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from NYT > Books
In Jennifer Hofmann’s debut novel, “The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures,” an aging Berliner loses his sense of self.Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
The author discusses her quartet of novels, written fast on the heels of Brexit, Trump and the ensuing horrors and concluding with "Summer."Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
'Vanishing Half' author Brit Bennett talks about the inspiration behind her bestselling novel.Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
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Adding finish to young aristocrats’ education in centuries past, and recorded by Goethe, Sterne and others, these alluring journeys had a very dark side The Grand Tour was one of the defining educational experiences of the 18th century,...Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from NYT > Books
The three siblings at the center of “The Boy in the Field,” by Margot Livesey, find an unconscious child. Their lives are never the same.Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Books - Chicago Tribune
American tourists can travel via virtual experiences during the COVID-19 travel ban to Europe.Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Books - Chicago Tribune
We spoke with students in the Chicago area who will be college freshmen this fall, at Columbia or schools further from home. Their graduations were disrupted last spring, heading off to campus — or not — might be even worse.