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Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish citizen, ran a publishing house that appeared to anger the Communist PartyTuesday, February 25, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Chapters Indigo did not have a good holiday season, which is the pivotal time of year that they traditionally sell the most books. For the 4th quarter of 2019, revenue was $383.7 million, which was $42.3 million less than same time last...Tuesday, February 25, 2020 from NYT > Books
The Auschwitz Memorial said the show’s human chess scene at a concentration camp was a dangerous caricature, and called for the removal of an anti-Semitic children’s book.Tuesday, February 25, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Author of dystopian series hopes TV adaptation will open up more nuanced debate on race in UK The bestselling author and former children’s laureate, Malorie Blackman, has said she hopes the forthcoming BBC adaptation of her critically...Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
“Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” the first books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, have sold millions. Now the two-time Booker Prize winner is finishing the job with “The Mirror and the Light.”Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
The new play, titled “Common Ground Revisited,” will be staged at the Huntington Theater Company early next year.Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
In “Disturbance,” Philippe Lançon recounts barely surviving the attack at the satirical magazine’s offices in 2015.Monday, February 24, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
A group of students participated in a demonstration at Long Beach Polytechnic High School on Monday in support of recently suspended teacher Myriam Gurba.Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
As the world grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, these works remind us that humans have faced deadly plagues for millenniums.Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
In his new novel, “Apeirogon,” McCann tells the real-life story of two men whose daughters died in the Middle East conflict.Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
The actress, whose FX series returns on March 5, puts “All That Jazz,” A Tribe Called Quest and Norman Lear’s comedies on her list of must-haves.Monday, February 24, 2020 from NYT > Books
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.Monday, February 24, 2020 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 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Stephen Fry, Noam Chomsky and more than 40 NGOs say the country’s support for the event is at odds with its record on human rights As bestselling authors from Jung Chang to Bernardine Evaristo prepare to gather in Abu Dhabi for the first...Monday, February 24, 2020 from The Digital Reader
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Did you know there's a segment of the industry that still needs to be told that ebooks are real books Continue reading You just finished reading Morning Coffee – 24 February 2020...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Boy meets girl in the woods, a wedding turns bloody, and two cold cases come dramatically back to life Bantam Press, £12.99, pp384 Continue reading...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There used to be a stigma about self-publishing, not even 15 years. It was not uncommon for published authors to roll their eyes at anyone claiming the dubious title of “self-published author.” You know the type of...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There are a myriad of digital note taking devices that employ e-paper technology that is easy on the eyes and great in the outdoors, since they don’t reflect light. They have long battery life, so you can go weeks without having to...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The power of memory, for ever young, resounds in this late work by the a poet balancing the ‘literary’ and the vernacular Daft Patter If anyone knows about sullen loneliness, you do Yet there’s a grin in the wind, heartless and cold...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
This fascinating account of Siberia’s horrific legacy is told with great verve Sophy Roberts ’s first glimpse of the Sea of Okhotsk was from beside the foot of a metallic mammoth, sculpted from discarded cogs, chains and pipes. Nearby...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The South Korean writer weaves a metaphysical detective story with immense skill Untold Night and Day was first published in Korea in 2013 and is the fourth of Bae Suah’s novels – which number more than a dozen – to be translated into...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Based on the true-life friendship of two men whose daughters were killed in the Middle East, this novel buoys the heart In his 1985 Jerusalem prize acceptance speech, Milan Kundera spoke about the novel’s ability to transcend binaries,...Monday, February 24, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The long-awaited final part of the Booker-winning trilogy is a masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches So the trilogy is complete, and it is magnificent. The portrait of Thomas Cromwell that began with Wolf Hall (2009) and...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
Smith was a successful model, restaurateur and the host of a nationally syndicated lifestyle talk show.Sunday, February 23, 2020 from NYT > Books
The authors of “Rage Baking” started a different conversation than they intended.Sunday, February 23, 2020 from The eBook Reader Blog
Here’s a list of 10 free highly-rated Kindle ebooks and some Kindle deals for the weekend. Amazon has select Kindle ebooks on sale for Sunday as one of their main Daily Deals, with up to 80% off top reads adapted for the screen....Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Promoting his new book, the Frenchman is happy to talk Marx and money, but less forthcoming about a domestic violence claim that has resurfaced Seven years ago a French economist named Thomas Piketty published a book entitled Capital in...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from NYT > Books
In “Every Drop of Blood,” Edward Achorn addresses sweeping issues about the Civil War and the precarious state of America through the president’s 1865 inaugural speech.Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Jean Kwok draws on her family history in a pacy, often elegant novel about a woman’s hunt for her missing sister Jean Kwok – born in Hong Kong, raised in Brooklyn, based in the Netherlands – had a hit a decade ago with Girl in...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The Virago publisher is eloquent and inspiring on writing – but her memoir lacks grit and gossip Lennie Goodings has had a long and highly respected career in publishing. She is chair of Virago Press, the pioneering publishing house that...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There is no shortage of digital note taking devices on the market. There are numerous entrants to the E INK space that have Wacom enabled screens and notable products include the Sony Digital Paper, Remarkable and the Onyx Boox MAX 3....Sunday, February 23, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
An academic’s argument for policy that bridges the left-right divide exposes the shortcomings of political ‘package deals’ Brendon Kaluza-Graham was born in Spokane, Washington, to parents who were just 14 and 16. His life was split...Sunday, February 23, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
When Chi Pang-yuan was a young girl, her father Chi Shiying was wanted by warlord Zhang Zuolin and […]Sunday, February 23, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Sometimes you can go home again. Wouldn’t you go back to being a kid for a few hours if you could? If you want to get the adrenaline rush of childhood, go to the Pinball Museum in Delray Beach, Florida. It’s really a vintage arcade where...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Novelist Sadie Jones recommends the best books to elicit empathy by stealth Q: I’d like advice on a book to give my dad for a present. He’s a Daily Mail reader in his 50s and very stubborn. I’d like to give him something that will help...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
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The Color Purple, The Hate U Give and American Sign Language textbooks have all been censored in U.S. prisons. A recent report describes the restrictions as "arbitrary" and "opaque."Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The imaginary realms of the Brontë sisters offer an escape from Victorian constraints in a graphic novel that blurs fiction and memoir Before Jane Eyre and before Heathcliff, there was Glass Town. Isolated on the edge of the Yorkshire...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A memoir and fervent call to arms from a key leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, written with Jason Y Ng Since June 2019 Hong Kong has been – first figuratively, then literally – on fire. What began as a “summer of discontent”...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
As the long-awaited final volume of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy is published, the twice Booker winner discusses her writing life and why she wants to write a play of her controversial Margaret Thatcher story The Mirror & the Light by...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Kobo Forma has been on sale in various retailers for the better part of the last few months. This device came out in 2018 and is considered their flagship e-reader. There is a growing contingent of users that are not happy, citing...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Guardian Unlimited Books
A splendid life of Andy Warhol claims him as the most influential artist of the 20th century, and isn’t shy of exposing his private life There are so many Warholian moments in this superb biography that it’s hard to know where to start....Saturday, February 22, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Santa Monica, where the wooden pier juts out into the Pacific Ocean, marks the end of Route 66, the mother road for many of those migrating from the eastern states. The great American journey West culminates here, with a Ferris wheel and...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
A November sale of literary items belonging to the now-defunct French company Aristophil generated $4.2 million, which is a tiny fraction of the price paid by the many investors who purchased shares in these documents through what is...Saturday, February 22, 2020 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Myriam Gurba, who derided 'American Dirt,' has been placed on administrative leave and was escorted from Long Beach Polytechnic High School on Friday.Saturday, February 22, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
There’s a common misconception that Tantric yoga is somewhat esoteric, or confined to Tibet. Yet in “The Extasie”, […]Saturday, February 22, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
This week’s charts see Marian Keyes continue her reign at the top with Grown-Ups, and we’re starting to see more and more new releases making their way into the Top 20, with eight of this week’s Top 20 being 2020...Friday, February 21, 2020 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Breaking and entering. Defacing public and private property. Trespassing. Most people would say one who does those things is a criminal. The punishment? Try a reward of millions. Let me explain. Carlos Mare is no ordinary...Friday, February 21, 2020 from NYT > Books
Adam Cohen talks about “Supreme Inequality,” and Madeline Levine discusses “Ready or Not.”