[music] Sarah Wendell: Hello and welcome to episode number 611 of Smart Podcast, Trashy Books. I’m Sarah Wendell, with me is Amanda, and, y’all, the […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 Bestseller The latest bestsellers are brought to you by warm quilts, fresh cookies, and the charm of the phrase “safe as houses,” along with […]

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 […]

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 […]

by Stephanie Johnson & Brandon Stanton illustrated by Henry Sene Yee ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2022 A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life […]

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 […]

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 […]

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