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His book, published in 1982 amid a brutal recession, foretold of a bountiful postindustrial information economy. He was half right.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
Soyica Diggs Colbert’s “Radical Vision” situates the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” as a writer who offered “a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present.”Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book is about the Sacklers, the family whose company created the powerful painkiller that ushered in a new era of both pain management and opioid addiction.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
“Early Morning Riser” is a small-town story with meaningful ramifications.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
With playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Ozick, the renowned author and critic, channels raw contemplations of old age into the fictional diary of a fading boarding-school trustee.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
“Under the Wave at Waimea” follows a former surfer through a reflective and ultimately transformative period.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, highlights memorable episodes from her eight years hosting the show, including conversations with Robert Caro, Isabel Wilkerson, James McBride and others.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
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From Alexandre Dumas to Ian McEwan, writers serve up a dish that’s best prepared only in imagination In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Then he added man. Maybe he wouldn’t have if he’d known what was coming....Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
In “Beloved Beasts,” Michelle Nijhuis tells the stories of the men and women who have fought to rescue endangered animals from extinction.Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Sleeping sickness, strange behaviour and mass hysteria ... a neurologist makes sense of ‘psychosomatic’ illness In Sweden in recent years, hundreds of children of refugee families have fallen into coma-like states and not woken up again,...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Power is celebrated for his short stories, and his debut novel, about creative theft and Russian intrigue, is full of fine writing Many readers will immediately warm to a novel that begins in a bookshop. We’re in Berlin, and things...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Bookshops hold a special place in the hearts of readers. With retail now open across the UK, we asked you to tell us about the bookshops you are longing to browse “During the pandemic I have been really impressed by the team who run The...Wednesday, April 14, 2021 from NYT > Books
Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
“Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?” collects a few dozen of Diski’s best pieces for the London Review of Books.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from The eBook Reader Blog
If you have a previous generation Onyx Boox device you might want to check the settings menu for a new firmware update. Last week Onyx started rolling out the V3.1 software update for the 13.3-inch Max3, the 10.3-inch Note2, the 7.8-inch...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
In “The Third Pole,” the author and adventurer Mark Synnott documents his attempt to find the lost body of a 1924 explorer.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
In Babalola’s debut collection, “Love in Color,” the knight in shining armor doesn’t necessarily wield a blade, but instead, the ability to see.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Patrick Radden Keefe's much-anticipated "Empire of Pain" lays it all bareTuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
Kushner’s latest book, “The Hard Crowd,” contains essays written over the past 20 years.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut, “Open Water,” sets a romance between 20-somethings against the backdrop of racial oppression in southeast London.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
After the author and TV personality’s death, his longtime assistant was left to finish his last book, a world travel guide.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
An excerpt from “Early Morning Riser,” by Katherine HeinyTuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
An excerpt from “Under the Wave at Waimea,” by Paul TherouxTuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
In “When the Stars Go Dark,” the author of “The Paris Wife” tries her hand at a new genre.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
The protagonist of the author’s latest work, “Antiquities,” recounts his obsession with Egyptian artifacts and his boyhood friendship with an unusual classmate.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
Written in the wake of Kristallnacht, “The Passenger,” a novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, follows a Jewish man in an increasingly hostile world.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
“The Memory Theater,” “On Fragile Waves” and “Victories Greater Than Death” take readers tumbling through realms and ever stranger stories.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
In this dark family memoir, Vince Granata recalls the afternoon his brother killed his mother.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
“New Yorkers,” an oral history by Craig Taylor, and “Names of New York,” Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s chronicle of street names, capture the dizzying variety and fluidity of the city’s stories.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
In “Aviary,” by Deirdre McNamer, a fire at a senior living facility reveals the entangled lives of its inhabitants.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
Maria Kuznetsova’s novel “Something Unbelievable” shows how unspectacular moments can transcend their confines, how spectacular the ordinary can be.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
“An Apprenticeship” is a love story between a schoolteacher and a professor. But it’s also a kind of spiritual treatise.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from NYT > Books
“The Bookseller of Florence,” by Ross King, tells the history of Renaissance bookmaking through the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, who rose from humble roots to dominate the trade.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Poetry | The Guardian
The Russian poet’s eloquent writing is caught between a pursuit of the past and the meaninglessness of memorialising Translated poetry seldom finds its way into this column. It is too high risk: there is the probability the original...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Michela Wrong uses the murder of Patrick Karegeya to focus her case against Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame in this fascinating investigation When Rwanda’s former intelligence chief was found strangled in a plush Johannesburg hotel room,...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Plastic Logic has just unveiled a new breed of flexible color e-paper displays that will power the next generation of smart accessories, such as bracelets or smartwatches. It will be able to display over 40,000 different color...Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
The former House speaker didn't mince words when it came to one current politician.Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon often pushes out firmware updates and activates new features at a later date. Various Kindle models such as the Paperwhite, Oasis and the entry level Kindle are now able to display ebook cover art on the lock screen, when the...Monday, April 12, 2021 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
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Current laureate Cressida Cowell leads demands to ringfence funds to renew ‘deteriorating’ facilities that fail to appeal to students All of the UK’s children’s laureates, including Cressida Cowell, Quentin Blake, Philip Pullman and...Monday, April 12, 2021 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
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JK ROWLING is known for her work in children's books, specifically the Harry Potter series - but does she have children of her own?Monday, April 12, 2021 from Books - Chicago Tribune
The Illinois & Michigan Canal is having a renaissance as a recreation area with 69 miles of trails, museums, restaurants and a mule-drawn boat ride.Monday, April 12, 2021 from NYT > Books
His work focused on the way cultures shape, and are shaped by, individuals — a framework he demonstrated through his passionate political activism.Monday, April 12, 2021 from Books - Chicago Tribune
Chicago's largest group of cherry trees is in full bloom. Thousands are flocking to Jackson Park, where 160 trees were planted starting in 2013.Monday, April 12, 2021 from Books - Chicago Tribune
Al Morales and Reed Benedict, together since 2009, are recovering well from the nation's third-ever kidney transplant between an HIV-positive donor and HIV-positive recipient. “There’s a lot of euphoria here.”