He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.
Isabella Hammad, Norah Lofts, comfort reads – welcome to episode 135! In the first half, we discuss whether or not literary fiction can be comfort reads – thank you for the suggestion, Marcy! In the second half, we...
Damn! I wish I could be in Philadelphia next month for this event: Noir Con is sponsoring Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss: Goodisville 2025 , to be held on Sunday, March 2nd, from 12 noon to 5:30 pm ET. David L. Goodis was a prolific...
The Sandman spin-off Death: DC Compact Comics Edition was due to be released later this year DC Comics has pulled a Neil Gaiman title that was due to be published later this year. Death: DC Compact Comics Edition was meant to come out on...
New editions of her novels are aimed squarely at the BookTok demographic – but will this make these classics appeal to fans of “spicy” romance? What will get young people reading classic literature? Better blurbs? Changes in the school...
The woman in her 50s was dressed in a pink cowgirl suit and screaming at a coffee vendor. But as neurologist Masud Husain soon found out, she had only recently become prone to rude outbursts.
Here’s something I hadn’t noticed before. If you didn’t know that Kobo’s ereaders support Adobe DRM for ebooks, you certainly wouldn’t learn that fact by visiting Kobo’s website and reading their...
Sally Abe recounts what its like working for Gordon Ramsay and other Michelin restaurants, and why she is tearing up the cheffing rulebook with her restaurant, The Pem.
Spotify Audiobooks is one of the world’s most popular audiobook platforms. It… The post Spotify Audiobooks grows their Fantasy, and Romance genres first appeared on Good e-Reader .
People often ask me if I read my dad’s books. The truth is, I never really have before. Despite his numerous novels and several short stories, there is very little by him that I have actually read. I would like to change...
In his movies, Frederick Wiseman, a filmmaker who resists interpretation as much as he invites it, likes to show people being given the tools to figure things out on their own.
In Sparks, Ian Johnson writes of Chinese people who risk their careers and even their lives to uncover suppressed truths about their country’s modern history.
A new collection of Emily Dickinson's letters reveals them to be a major literary achievement, related to her poems and perhaps exceeding them in experimental energy.
Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude has skimmed off only the melodramatic and the anecdotal parts of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece.
The late Swiss writer Markus Werner's bleakly funny The Frog in the Throat, first published forty years ago, is a parallel portrait of father-and-son misanthropes and seems to speak directly to our moment.
Paper pusher, I’ll tell you what it feels likeTo spend the exact cash you make the same Night you make it. That sky velveted asAn empty ring box. Disintegration coming out Of the speakers again. Neck-deep in the quarry swimmingHole. This...
Bringing Silicon Valley's drive for innovation to defense contracting has been a slow process, but the war in Ukraine has led tech firms to plunge into the war business.
There have always been oracles, prophets, soothsayers, utopians, seers, or futurologists to make predictions about what will pass, and no matter how often they are wrong or discredited, humanity’s need remains.
To the Editors: A rather significant factual gaffe by reviewer Jessica Riskin [“Turtles All the Way Up,” NYR, February 13]. She writes: Despite such seemingly deistic moments in his writings, Darwin took a great interest in the capacity...
For a limited time, save over 50% on 3 months of Audible and enjoy the best selection of audiobooks plus podcasts & Originals. The post Audible is having a 3 month for $6.99 sales promotion first appeared on Good e-Reader .
Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas revisits the world of 1980s talent agencies in her debut novel, 'Climbing in Heels,' which onetime colleague Darren Star has signed on to adapt.
Eighteen books in (the latest is “Every Tom, Dick & Harry”), she still recalls an editor’s note urging more action: “Could someone here please pass the potatoes?”
The pursuers are also the pursued in this tale of vulnerable children, society murders and an irascible detective A companion to Paraic O’Donnell’s’s 2018 gothic mystery The House on Vesper Sands , The Naming of the Birds unfolds with...
‘The Secret of Secrets’: Dan Brown’s ‘most ambitious novel’ to hit stands in September. The post Dan Brown Announces New Book, The Secret of Secrets first appeared on Good e-Reader .
In this invigorating collection the novelist takes in Jean Rhys, James Baldwin, and how real life makes it into fiction Diana Evans has written four novels, beginning with 26a , which follows twin sisters of Nigerian descent through...
One woman’s quest, told through haunting, harrowing, dreamlike imagery, bears witness to Korea’s traumatic past There are books in a writer’s life that gather all their previous themes and explorations in a great act of creative...
The 5.17.3 firmware introduces a Side Panel Margin on the Kindle Scribe. The post Side Panel Writing is now available on the Kindle Scribe first appeared on Good e-Reader .
Amazon is adding a more powerful notebook and new in-book writing experiences for Canadian customers. The post New Amazon Kindle Scribe Firmware Update Available in Canada first appeared on Good e-Reader .
The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, “Notes to John.” They provide a raw account of her life, her work and her complex relationship with her daughter.
Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author Gwen Watkins, who has died aged 101, deciphered German air force codes at Bletchley Park during the second world war, helping RAF and US...
Amazon has released a software update, version 5.17.3, for both the 2022 and 2024 Kindle Scribe that adds a new way to write notes within ebooks and Word documents, and it also adds a new visually-distracting icon on the screen that...
The author recorded her thoughts on alcoholism, depression and her complex relationship with her daughter Quintana in the book, Notes to John A journal found in Joan Didion’s home is to be published in April. Discovered in a filing...
Checking my phone, I saw there was one from two Westminster staffers, assistants working for MPs. I opened it and found a screenshot that no amount of mind bleach will ever expunge.
Lawsuit says its definition of ‘harmful materials’ forbidden to under 18s is ‘vague and overbroad’ and puts librarians at risk A group of major publishers in the US are suing the state of Idaho over a book-banning law. HB 710, enacted...