Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has sued Luciano Canfora, an eighty-one-year-old historian, philologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Bari, for aggravated defamation (diffamazione […]
Bringing an Oasis to the Book Desert
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IT’S MURDER, YOU BETCHA! | Kirkus Reviews
by Don Winslow ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 2, 2024 If you love good crime writing but aren’t familiar with Winslow’s work, read this trilogy in […]
Wake Me Most Wickedly by Felicia Grossman
CW/TW CW: sexual harassment, discussion of transactional sex with no real enthusiastic consent, lots and lots of antisemitism I enjoyed this book. I read it […]
Synthetic Thinking | Jerome Groopman
For nearly two decades, Jerome Groopman has been writing for The New York Review of Books about all matters medical. In our latest issue, he reviews Andrew Leland’s […]
Kobo Is Launching Its First Color Ereaders
Rakuten Kobo has announced that it will be releasing its first color ereaders, the the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. These ereaders […]
A SUPREME COURT UNLIKE ANY OTHER
Political scientist McMahon opens with the most consequential single Supreme Court decision in our time: Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade, undoing “a constitutional right […]
Into the Cave | Jo Livingstone
Jo Livingstone and I first met at the Oxford Wine Café, a dingy spot just outside Oxford’s city center, in 2018. We had the most […]
Should AI Companies Buy Publishers for Access to Their Data?
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THE SECRET LIVES OF BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIANS
Patterson, Eversmann, and Mooney gather first-person testimonies from independent booksellers (including author Judy Blume, who started her Key West store when she was 78); booksellers […]
SBTB Bestsellers: March 23 – April 5
SBTB Bestseller The latest bestsellers are brought to you by warm quilts, fresh cookies, and the charm of the phrase “safe as houses,” along with […]
Games We Play
The Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong loads her canvases with about as much potential energy as they can bear. The paintings in her “Billiards” series […]
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 (So Far)
We’re a quarter of the way through the year, if you can believe it, which makes it a good time to look back at the […]
ME AND MR. JONES | Kirkus Reviews
by Stephanie Johnson & Brandon Stanton illustrated by Henry Sene Yee ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2022 A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life […]
Links: The Spice Girls, More Trader Joe’s Discussion, & More
Hellooooo! It’s time for Wednesday Links! How are we feeling about April? Have the allergies started for anyone yet? I’m always dreading allergy season, but […]
Russia’s Election Ritual | Elena Kostyuchenko
Every time a foreign friend asks me about elections in Russia, I go through a familiar cycle: first awkwardness, then confusion, then shame. I freeze […]
25 years of 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
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THE LAST PHILOSOPHER IN TEXAS
Chacón’s stories deal with small magic: the mysticism of conversations with relatives or finding a familiar face in an unfamiliar setting. In the opener, “My […]