A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler
Among the most memorable interactions I’ve ever had with artists occurred during a trip I made to New Mexico in…
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The Kingdom of Sweets – Erika Johansen
Summary: Bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, Erika Johansen, journeys to a new kingdom in this brilliant…
Becky’s Book Reviews: November Reflections
In November I read twenty-five books. Books reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews: 91. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret. Benjamin…
Publishing in Sub-Saharan Africa Grows Amid Inflation, Piracy
In early 2024, the British Council commissioned a study, Publishing Futures: A Study of the Publishing Landscapes in Ghana, Kenya,…
2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Posted on October 3, 2024 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced by the National Book…
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe by Vivien Goldman review – hanging with the punks and the Rastas | Music books
Vivien Goldman, the “punk professor” from London who teaches at New York University, has been involved in music from the…
How Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps
In an age when many of us could hardly make our way to an unfamiliar grocery store without relying on…
Artificial and Unintelligent | James Gleick
Richard Powers’s new novel, Playground, features an artificial intelligence resembling the new generation of “large language models,” like ChatGPT and…
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime, Adapted for Young Readers
Summary: The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, tells the story of growing up half black, half white in South Africa under…
The Golden Age Volume 1
93. Superman: The Golden Age #1 Jerry Siegel. Joe Shuster. 2016. (Comics are from June 1938 through December 1939.) 392…
NBN to Close, Clients Offered Opportunity to Move to S&S
In another sign of the changing economics of distribution in the publishing industry, independent distributor National Book Network (NBN) will…
Winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prizes Announced
Posted on November 10, 2024 The winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prizes have been announced. The categories include Fiction, Nonfiction,…
Tell us: what have you been reading this month? | Books
As part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed…
Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life
This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who’s reinvented himself over the past decade as…
The Sri Lankan Left in Power | Tisaranee Gunasekara
Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and…
The Book of Witching – C.J. Cooke
Summary: Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital…
Becky’s Book Reviews: 76. Dogtown
76. Dogtown (A Dogtown Book #1) Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko. 2023. [September] 352 pages. [Source: Library] [Animal fantasy; J…
At the 2024 New York Comic Con, Comics Still Rule
Although there were fewer comics companies exhibiting than ever before, this year’s New York Comic Con, held October 17–20 at…
Han Kang Wins The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024
Posted on October 10, 2024 Writer and poet Han Kang has been awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024.…
‘I was on the way to a funeral when the idea came to me’: 2024’s Booker-shortlisted authors on the moment inspiration struck | Booker prize
Writing Creation Lake was a uniquely blissful experience. The novel synthesised into one object many things I think about and feel…
The Writer Who Directed, The Director Who Wrote: Every Frame a Painting Explores the Genius of Billy Wilder
When the acclaimed cinema video-essay channel Every Frame a Painting made its comeback this past summer, its creators Tony Zhou…
Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s Afro-Arab Jazz | Nate Wooley
The jazz bassist and composer Ahmed Abdul-Malik was born Jonathan Tim Jr. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1927. Throughout his life…