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13th of November 2018
Books
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Is This an Exceptional Moment for Picture Books? (shelftalker)2018-09-13 08:00:06
Painter Sofonisba Anguissola considers the quality of today’s picture books as opposed to those from her time. -
Tauber to Lead Chronicle's New Imprint2018-09-13 00:00:00
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Mary Poppins Returns with New Editions, Tie-Ins2018-09-13 00:00:00
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NEA Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading2018-09-13 00:00:00
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Publishers Call Out Target for 'Censoring' Book Descriptions2018-09-13 00:00:00
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Ibi Zoboi: 'Pride' Grows in Brooklyn2018-09-13 00:00:00
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Four Questions for Dave Eggers2018-09-13 00:00:00
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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of September 17, 20182018-09-13 00:00:00
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2018 Decatur Book Festival in Photos2018-09-13 00:00:00
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10 Famous Authors and Their Cats2018-09-13 00:00:00
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DK Restructures U.S. Management2018-09-13 00:00:00
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PW Star Watch 2018 Superstars: Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli2018-09-13 00:00:00
Books - The Huffington Post
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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Removes 9 Books By Notorious Rape Apologist 'Roosh'2018-09-10 20:06:24
Amazon and YouTube both took steps to drop Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh's content after HuffPost reached out. But he remains verified on Twi -
Bob Woodward: John Kelly, James Mattis 'Not Telling The Truth' On Incendiary Book Quotes2018-09-10 08:54:21
The senior Trump administration officials are denying they mocked the president to "protect their jobs," the veteran journalist said. -
Bob Woodward On Donald Trump: 'People Better Wake Up To What's Going On'2018-09-09 16:18:11
"Let's hope we don't have a crisis," the famed reporter said in assessing how the Trump White House operates. -
The View From Inside A Freedom Rider’s Jail Cell2018-09-07 14:11:15
"Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders,” a photo-history book, contains a series of extended interviews with riders -
This Children's Book Is A How-To Guide For Body Positivity2018-09-07 13:56:40
"Learning to Love Your Body" tackles impossible beauty standards. -
Trump Insists 'I Don't Talk The Way I Am Quoted.' Twitter Users Disagree.2018-09-07 12:23:08
The president claimed he'd never have been elected if he spoke the way he's quoted in Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear." -
In 'Maiden & Princess,' Two Young Women Find Their Happily Ever After2018-09-07 12:01:50
Catch a sneak peek at Daniel Haack and Isabel Galupo's new queer-inclusive children's book. -
25 Children's Books That Celebrate Differences2018-09-06 16:49:27
From race to religion to abilities and more. -
Gary Shteyngart's New Book Spills Tea And Sympathy For The White Male Banker2018-09-05 18:57:57
"Lake Success" is a wincingly funny, sometimes too-gentle satire of the 1 percent in Trump's America. -
Donald Trump Cries About People Making Up Stories, Gets Brutally Taken To Task2018-09-05 08:09:48
"Like you did with Obama's birth certificate? My, how the tables have turned." -
Donald Trump's Old Tweets About Bob Woodward Have Aged Very, Very Badly2018-09-05 04:21:52
The president may currently be furious with the acclaimed journalist, but it hasn't always been that way. -
Donald Trump Just Totally Threw His Deputy Press Secretary Under The Bus2018-09-05 02:03:24
“I don’t speak to Raj," the president told Bob Woodward.
Page-Turner
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The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature2018-09-12 14:30:00
The New Yorker announces the ten contenders in the National Book Awards category of Translated Literature. -
The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Young People’s Literature2018-09-12 10:00:00
The New Yorker announces the ten contenders in the National Book Awards category of Young People’s Literature. -
Tessa Hadley Reads “Cecilia Awakened”2018-09-11 00:00:00
Deborah Treisman hosts the author Tessa Hadley, who reads her short story “Cecilia Awakened,” from the September 17, 2018, issue of The Ne -
The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism2018-09-10 10:47:52
An excerpt from Brian Dillon’s new book, “Essayism,” out this month from New York Review Books. -
“The Old Professor’s Book”2018-09-10 05:00:00
Poetry by Ishion Hutchinson: “Fragile pencil webbings of flickered exclamations, / impatient the way he paced the blackboard.” -
Olivia Laing’s “Crudo” Is Made from the Raw Material of the Present2018-09-10 05:00:00
Alexandra Schwartz reviews a first novel that sits at the messy intersection of political turbulence and personal transformation. -
“Epithalamium”2018-09-10 05:00:00
Poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt: “To love a narcissist / you have to believe, & reader, I did.” -
Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence2018-09-10 05:00:00
Deborah Treisman talks to Tessa Hadley about “Cecilia Awakened,” her short story from the September 17, 2018, issue of The New Yorker. -
“Cecilia Awakened”2018-09-10 05:00:00
Fiction by Tessa Hadley: “It was as if, on the first morning of that holiday in Florence, Cecilia simply woke up inside the wrong skin.” -
Sunday Reading: Russian Literature2018-09-09 05:00:00
Pieces on six great Russian-language writers, from The New Yorker’s archive, including by Masha Gessen, Keith Gessen, Vladimir Nabokov, Janet Ma -
The Death of a Movie Theatre2018-09-06 15:49:29
Thomas Beller writes about Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the art-house movie theatre on New York’s Upper West Side that closed earlier this year. -
“Small Fry,” Reviewed: Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Mesmerizing, Discomfiting Memoir2018-09-06 09:00:00
Katy Waldman reviews “Small Fry,” a new memoir by Steve Jobs’s daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs in which she seeks control of part of
Christian Science Monitor |
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'Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret' is unflinching, engrossing2018-09-11 10:18:19
'Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret' is unflinching, engrossing -
'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' is flawed, remarkable, wrenching, moving2018-09-11 10:18:19
'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' is flawed, remarkable, wrenching, moving -
'Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy' argues for a more serious re-reading of 'Little Women'2018-09-11 10:18:19
'Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy' argues for a more serious re-reading of 'Little Women' -
10 best books of September: the Monitor's books2018-09-11 10:18:19
From a true story of character reformation to a passionate primer on opera to an engaging fictional tale about a 1916 election, here are the 10 Septem -
9 football books to kick off the 2018 season2018-09-11 10:18:19
From Donald Trump and the defunct United States Football League to retrospectives on the Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots, the 2018 football se -
'The Most Dangerous Branch' portrays the Supreme Court as a threat to democracy2018-09-11 10:18:19
'The Most Dangerous Branch' portrays the Supreme Court as a threat to democracy -
'Big Game' offers a provocative, warts-and-all portrait of the NFL2018-09-11 10:18:19
'Big Game' offers a provocative, warts-and-all portrait of the NFL -
Three delightful new nature books2018-09-11 10:18:19
Three delightful new nature books -
Lost in the Russia scandal maze? Read your way out.2018-09-11 10:18:19
Journalistic books delving into President Trump's relationship with Moscow are two a penny. To better understand the Russia scandal, try reading book -
'If Only' explores an adopted child's sense of a kaleidoscope of possibilities2018-09-11 10:18:19
'If Only' explores an adopted child's sense of a kaleidoscope of possibilities -
'The Mere Wife' brings new life to a classic in this reimagining of 'Beowulf'2018-09-11 10:18:19
'The Mere Wife' brings new life to a classic in this reimagining of 'Beowulf' -
'De Gaulle' paints an excellently clear portrait of a 20th-century myth2018-09-11 10:18:19
'De Gaulle' paints an excellently clear portrait of a 20th-century myth
The New York Review of Books
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The Known Known2018-09-10 09:30:36
In 1999, when Scott McNealy, the founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared, “You have zero privacy...get over it,” most of us, still n -
Resistance Means More Than Voting2018-09-10 08:57:17
How long must the list of Trump’s anti-democratic outrages grow before we hope that resistance be mounted openly, secretly, immediately, effecti -
Cabrini Blues2018-09-09 10:00:10
Nine of the ten most racially segregated American cities are all located in the North, the “Land of Hope” during the Great Migration of Af -
Wagner’s Wonder Woman2018-09-08 03:00:51
So vivid are my memories of the incomparable Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005)—by general consent the foremost female Wagner expo -
How Assad Made Truth a Casualty of War2018-09-07 03:50:51
If reporting evidence of war crimes brought no consequences for the criminals, then truth had lost its value and journalists had become dispensable. B -
Aquarius Rising2018-09-06 08:00:08
Certain years acquire an almost numinous quality in collective memory—1789, 1861, 1914. One of the more recent additions to the list is 1968. It -
Stalkers2018-09-06 07:30:11
To the Editors: John Nathan is always worth reading, even when it’s an unhappy review of my book The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature -
‘Bless Nixon for Those Tapes’: An Interview with John Dean2018-09-06 03:00:10
Claudia Dreifus: The end for Nixon came in the summer of 1974 when a group of influential Republicans went to the White House and told the president i -
Why Bannon Is Meddling With Bosnia2018-09-05 05:45:16
Today, the “American interest” in Bosnia is extremely murky. It’s not simply that the US has taken a back seat in the Balkans, as it -
What Makes ‘The Living Dead’ My Film of 19682018-09-04 10:32:43
Night of the Living Dead was a triumph for low-budget, regional, independent filmmaking. A piecemeal production, made with pooled savings, shot in bla -
Election Season in a Dangerous Democracy2018-09-03 03:00:25
After the arrests of several political activists last week, a front-page report in The Indian Express read, “Those held part of anti-fascist plo -
A Midsummer Night’s Work2018-09-02 10:00:22
Was it you, presenting in the evening bougainvillea as a hummingbird again, you voluptuary, dual febrile wings ashine as a seamstress’s spool, h
Books
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Just Can't Help Falling In Love...With Romance Novels2018-09-13 11:06:30
If you're thinking about Fabio, you're 20 years behind the times. -
'The Dinosaur Artist' Dusts Off The Debate Over Who Should Own Fossils2018-09-13 10:30:00
Author Paige Williams brings the discussion to life by recounting the exploits of commercial fossil hunter Eric Prokopi, highlighting one find — -
A Short Story About A Hurricane2018-09-13 05:22:11
The writer Lauren Groff's recent book of short stories includes one called "Eyewall" in which a woman decides to ride out a hurricane. -
Claire Tomalin Moves 'Between The Trivial And The Tragic' In 'A Life Of My Own'2018-09-12 13:31:00
After writing biographies of Charles Dickens and Mary Wollstonecraft, Tomalin turned to memoir. Her new work tells of her conflicting desires to have -
'Football For A Buck' Tells The Story Of The USFL In All Its Doomed Glory2018-09-12 07:01:22
For three years in the 1980s, sports fans could enjoy football in the Spring. Master storyteller Jeff Pearlman describes the league's wild games, wil -
The Attack On Democracy In The 1930s And Today2018-09-12 05:11:00
As fascism spread globally in the 1930s, the U.S. responded with a series of radio programs informing the public about American democracy. Jill Lepore -
Sally Field Wasn't Sure She'd Have The Guts To Publish Her New Memoir2018-09-11 23:44:51
"I wrote it for myself," Field says of her intensely personal accounting of her life and career. In Pieces describes childhood abuse, an abortion at -
Fukuyama: A New American 'Identity' Could Be Antidote To Polarizing U.S. Politics2018-09-11 16:29:00
Resentment and a loss of dignity has fueled a rise in identity politics and made compromise difficult, political scientist Francis Fukuyama says. He p -
The 'Shadowlands' Of Southeast Asia's Illicit Networks: Meth, Dancing Queens And More2018-09-11 12:37:00
In his new book, Hello, Shadowlands, journalist Patrick Winn describes how underground crime groups thrive in a region where democracy is in retreat. -
Bob Woodward: 'People Need To Wake Up' To What's Happening Under Trump2018-09-11 11:51:00
The veteran journalist was shocked by the tactics White House staff use to circumvent Trump: "I've never heard in any way of staff going around a pr -
'The Real Lolita' Investigates The True Crime Story Of Sally Horner2018-09-11 11:41:00
Written in light of Nabokov's famous novel, the book stands out for its captivating mix of tenacious reporting, astute literary analysis and passiona -
Everyone's Miserable In The 'Hot, Horrible' World Of 'Ponti'2018-09-11 07:01:00
Sharlene Teo's debut novel is a shimmering story of three women in Singapore, but its plot gets washed away among the grotesque and stomach-churning
