Wednesday, February 20, 2019 from NYT > Books
In “Sleeping With Strangers,” David Thomson examines the ways in which movies have codified our fantasies.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
Readers have noticed an overlap between “The Woman in the Window,” by A.J. Finn — a pen name for Dan Mallory — and Sarah A. Denzil’s “Saving April.”Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
In “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments,” Saidiya Hartman writes about young black women in the early 20th century who tossed out the narrow scripts about intimacy they had been given.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
Fantagraphics Books will publish four of his books, starting with “The Underground Sketchbook,” in October.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
Explore the cities, countries, regions and states in Travel’s “52 Places to Go in 2019” through these books.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
In “Notes on a Shipwreck,” the Italian journalist Davide Enia bears witness to the suffering of migrants fleeing Africa for the island of Lampedusa.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
“I’ve read the books many times to my own children, astonished at how much is in them for my grown-up self — about that growing-up process, and about the times I grew up in, too.”Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
J.R.R. Tolkien — the artist, the writer, the scholar — is the subject of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum. The show is a comprehensive view of his alternate reality.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from The Nook Blog
This week’s Romance Roundup includes a woman who finds way more than she bargained for in a small, Texas town, a curvy lady who has attracted the attentions of two very sexy guys, and a single mom who meets a […] The post Romance...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The Second Coming series, which had been due to launch next month, has been pulled following campaign by conservative site CitizenGo A new comics series in which Jesus Christ is sent on “a most holy mission by God” to learn “what it...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A love story ever on the brink of ‘self-contempt’, the novel shows the private terrors that beset the fearless public campaigner Today James Baldwin is most frequently encountered as a “trailblazer of the civil rights movement” ; a...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
The guidebook covers Cantonese food in Asia, Europe and the United States.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from NYT > Books
Elinor Lipman’s “Good Riddance” offers an up-to-the-minute look at a young woman’s life in Manhattan.Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
US poet Ada Limón writes with simple and disarming honesty – for people rather than other poets I had never read Ada Limón when I dipped into Bright Dead Things and The Carrying (published simultaneously in Britain), but have since...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The upcoming movie Yesterday bears resemblance to Nick Milligan’s novel Enormity When Nick Milligan decided to self-publish his speculative fiction novel, Enormity, he knew it was going to be a hard slog to find an audience. But seeing a...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
On this week’s podcast, French author Leïla Slimani sits down with Sian to talk about her novel Adèle, the story of a self-destructive sex addict. And author Kristen Roupenian reveals to Hadley Freeman how writing one short story, Cat...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
An alpha male’s sense of self is shattered in French’s captivating standalone novel The screenwriter Steven Moffat once said that his hit show Sherlock was “not a crime drama, but a drama about a man who solves crimes”. The distinction...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon has plans to refresh their entry level Kindle with an E Ink Carta HD screen, instead of Pearl. The Voyage 2 will also be released and not much will change with the overall design, instead most of the enhancements will be under the...Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Twenty books in contention for this year’s £5,000 award encompass stories of bereavement, isolation and marginalisation From a girl’s exploration of her Taiwanese heritage following her mother’s suicide to the story of two young carers...Monday, February 18, 2019 from The eBook Reader Blog
Amazon has started rolling out another firmware update for Kindle ebook readers. The update is available for all current Kindles and older Kindles dating back to the Kindle Paperwhite 2 (the 6th generation model that was released in...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
"Second Coming," a series about Jesus' return to Earth, offers cultural commentary on modern-day Christianity. But some Christians called it blasphemous.Monday, February 18, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
In the year 2018, we have witnessed some of the most groundbreaking e-readers being released compared to the prior years. For those who are fans of e-books, this has been great news, as they could make a choice between different amazing...Monday, February 18, 2019 from NYT > Books
As a publishing team, she and her husband, Ian, set out in 1939 “to change the reading habits of America,” and to a large extent they did.Monday, February 18, 2019 from NYT > Books
“Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation,” by Steve Luxenberg, is an elegant history of the mostly losing battle to protect the civil rights of newly freed black citizens.Monday, February 18, 2019 from NYT > Books
Two new books, “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox, explore the benefits of tuning out.Monday, February 18, 2019 from NYT > Books
Her books were praised for their witty, honest portraits of the immigrant experience, especially of those who moved to Britain from the West Indies after World War II.Monday, February 18, 2019 from The Nook Blog
Most of the United States is under a thick layer of snow (even this author, in supposedly sunny Southern California, has had to suffer through interminable weeks of rain), which means two things: (1) if we want to get our […] The...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them Are you on Instagram? Then you can be featured here by tagging your books-related posts with #GuardianBooks Scroll down for our favourite literary links Read more...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The Cape Doctor by EJ Levy, which describes the individual born Margaret Ann Bulkley as ‘a heroine’, has been accused of disrespecting gender identity A debate about the gender identity of Dr James Barry, the pioneering Victorian who...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The Iranian-American Washington Post journalist reveals the psychological scars his 2014 imprisonment left him with Three years after being released from an Iranian prison, Jason Rezaian can still not quite shake off a recurring bad...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Atruism and exhilaration combine in a surgeon’s breathtaking exploits in conflict zones In late 1993, the surgeon David Nott travelled from his home in London to a hospital in war-torn Sarajevo on his first humanitarian mission. Two...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A restrained elegy for a friend, this is also a discreet reflection on how to live well in old age ‘As you set out …’ in memory of Ursula S Within a week your sons emptied your apartment, removed the Giacometti. Continue reading...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A timely history shows how confusion and dispute plagued the Irish border long before Brexit Numbering 208, there are more border crossings between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland than there are between the European Union...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The latest book by The End of Eddy author is a bludgeoning critique of France’s treatment of its working class Since the publication of The End of Eddy in 2014, Édouard Louis has assumed for himself the voice of the voiceless in his...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
As we mark LGBT history month, the novelist selects some classic, personal novels and true accounts of the battle for civil rights It’s a rite of passage for every young gay man to read Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story , the classic tale...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Boyue has just released the Likebook Muses, which can be considered the second generation Likebook Mars. This device has the same specs as the Mars, except it has a WACOM layer and comes with a stylus with take notes and edit PDF files....Sunday, February 17, 2019 from The eBook Reader Blog
Here’s a list of 10 free Kindle ebooks for your Sunday. Amazon also has a list of top Kindle ebooks on sale today only (2/17) for one of their main deals of the day. Please note that the free Kindle books listed below are free as...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from NYT > Books
The third novel in this propulsive, violent series trains a fictional lens on some of today’s most pressing issues, including the opioid crisis and political corruption.Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A young couple embark on a quest full of strange twists and turns in an atmospheric tale Chloe Aridjis’s 2009 debut, Book of Clouds , about a young Mexican writer exploring Berlin, and the novel that followed, Asunder , in which a guard...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Brilliantly disconcerting tales of the human psyche from the Argentinian author of Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin’s 2017 debut novel, Fever Dream , won the Argentinian writer widespread acclaim as well as a shortlisting for the Man Booker...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
In 2015, James became the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker. His new novel is a hotly anticipated African fantasy epic and here he talks about loving the X-Men, coming out and writing about violence It’s two days before the US...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon has implemented a new firmware update for most of their Kindle e-readers, such as the Oasis 2, Paperwhite 4 and Voyage. Version 5.10.3 simply states that it increases performance issues, but does not go into detail on exactly what...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The Vice journalist’s debut collection switches nimbly between the poignant and the absurd Joel Golby is a man of words. He loves words, by the tens of thousands, as evidenced by his features for irreverent/cool culture brand Vice ,...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from NYT > Books
A novel about the George W. Bush administration, Valeria Luiselli’s “Lost Children Archive,” a sneak peek at Ta-Nehisi Coates’s upcoming novel and more.Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A sleeping sickness sweeps through a university town in this hypnotic dystopian tale of a community in peril On a university campus in southern California, a college student falls asleep and cannot be woken. Over the following weeks, an...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
This bracing account of the many predictions and uncertainties around climate change is designed to startle and shake us Between 1833 and 1836, an ambitious young New Yorker painted his vision of the evolution of human society. In five...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There are a few E Ink typewriters on the market such as as the Pomera and Freewrite, but they are expensive and considered too hipster for most people. An engineer as just created his own typewriter and it has a built in printer and that...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
When it first launched, Amazon’s Kindle offered direct competition to the established publishing industry. The close-to-trillion-dollar company had already enjoyed great success in the early days of the internet as a simple online book...Saturday, February 16, 2019 from The eBook Reader Blog
One thing that’s nice about Kobo’s ebook readers is the fact that they are open to software modifications and users can choose to install alternate reading programs if they wish, including programs like KOReader and Plato....