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25th of April 2018
Books
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On Tour with Peter Brown2018-04-24 00:00:00
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In Conversation: Stephanie Tromly and Kathy Dawson2018-04-24 00:00:00
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Four Questions with Martha Brockenbrough2018-04-24 00:00:00
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Lee Bennett Hopkins Celebrates Eight Decades and Two New Anthologies2018-04-24 00:00:00
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Rights Report: Week of April 23, 20182018-04-24 00:00:00
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Comey's Debut Sells More Than 600,000 In Its First Week2018-04-24 00:00:00
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A Newbie Heads to NOLA (shelftalker)2018-04-23 08:04:00
Children’s Institute will be in New Orleans this year, and a bookseller looks forward to the highlights (including the costume party). -
Book to Film Deals, Week of April 23, 20182018-04-23 00:00:00
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International Hot Book Properties, Week of April 23, 20182018-04-23 00:00:00
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Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: May 20182018-04-23 00:00:00
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2018 Festival of Faith & Writing ‘Mixes It Up,' Touts Diversity2018-04-23 00:00:00
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Why An Agnostic Philosopher Says We're All 'Religious'2018-04-23 00:00:00
Books - The Huffington Post
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Trump Rages Against Comey Over Claims In New Book2018-04-15 11:32:46
Trump tweeted Sunday that the former FBI director "always ends up badly and out of whack." -
FYI, You Can Watch Astronauts Read Popular Kids Books From Space2018-04-13 15:41:56
Story time has never looked so cool. -
James Comey's Book Pre-Sold Almost 200,000 Copies, Source Says2018-04-13 14:23:32
That number includes both digital and hardcover pre-sales. -
Comey Memoir: Hiding Clinton Email News Would've Made Her Presidency 'Illegitimate'2018-04-13 13:26:10
The former FBI director writes that he assumed Trump would lose and that his wife and daughters voted for Clinton and participated in the Women’ -
Trump Responds To Allegations In James Comey's Book, Calls Him 'Untruthful Slime Ball'2018-04-13 08:23:47
"It was my great honor to fire James Comey!" the president tweeted Friday. -
Photo Of Meghan Markle's Dad Could Offer A Big Clue About The Royal Wedding2018-04-05 11:33:06
We could be "reading" too much into it. -
The 13 Best Books To Pick Up This Month2018-04-02 09:05:08
These are the titles to pick up now, including Nadia Murad's harrowing personal account of survival in Iraq and Janet Fitch's enchanting take of a y
Page-Turner
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A Brilliant 1895 Novel on the Emptiness of Literary Fame2018-04-17 13:47:12
James Guida writes on a newly translated satire by Arthur Schnitzler, “Late Fame,” about an aging Viennese civil servant who, virtually ou -
“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made2018-04-16 05:00:00
Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past? -
The Sense Beneath Edward Lear’s Nonsense2018-04-16 05:00:00
For the artist, parody was a vehicle for the renewal of feeling. Adam Gopnik on Jenny Uglow’s “Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense.&rdquo -
“A Flawless Silence”2018-04-16 05:00:00
Fiction by Yiyun Li: “Could love find a place in a marriage if it had not started with some degree of fantasy?” -
Yiyun Li on Public and Private Narratives2018-04-16 05:00:00
Cressida Leyshon interviews Yiyun Li about the themes of her story “A Flawless Silence,” which appears in this week’s issue of The N -
“We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once”2018-04-16 05:00:00
“We dismissed our appetites. We forgot our fathers. / Farther, farther, I am going into the dark // of the mind.” -
“Not a Mile”2018-04-16 05:00:00
“My students try / to understand why the voice / in the poem brags about death but / never dies.” -
Sunday Reading: Home Cooking2018-04-15 05:00:00
From the archives, stories and essays about the search for culinary heritage. -
J. D. McClatchy in The New Yorker2018-04-13 10:14:17
Hannah Aizenman writes about J. D. McClatchy, the American poet, critic, editor, teacher, translator, and opera librettist who contributed to The New -
The Gripping Stories, and Political Allegories, of China’s Best-Selling Author2018-04-13 05:00:00
Nick Frisch writes about the political resonance of the novels of the Chinese writer Louis Cha, author of “Legends of the Condor Heroes,” -
Why “Asymmetry” Has Become a Literary Phenomenon2018-04-12 12:40:04
Katy Waldman reviews the new novel “Asymmetry,” by Lisa Halliday. -
J. D. McClatchy’s Poetry Lessons2018-04-11 17:52:31
Alexandra Schwartz writes about the poet J. D. McClatchy, who died this week, and his work for The New Yorker and the Yale Review.
Christian Science Monitor |
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With tell-all, Comey joins club of ex-officials turned scribes2018-04-14 00:14:42
Former FBI Director James Comey's memoir, out Tuesday, joins a long list of juicy tomes by Washington power players. Beyond settling scores, the best -
In 'The Feather Thief,' a British bird burglary exposes a hidden world2018-04-14 00:14:42
In 'The Feather Thief,' a British bird burglary exposes a hidden world -
'The Class of '74' chronicles a young, liberal, and impatient House of Representatives2018-04-14 00:14:42
'The Class of '74' chronicles a young, liberal, and impatient House of Representatives -
'Something Wonderful' unpacks the magic behind Rodgers and Hammerstein2018-04-14 00:14:42
'Something Wonderful' unpacks the magic behind Rodgers and Hammerstein -
The 19th-century censor who pushed Americans too far2018-04-14 00:14:42
Historian Amy Werbel, author of the new book 'Lust on Trial,' explores the divisive and influential career of Anthony Comstock. -
'Neruda' plumbs the man behind the legend2018-04-14 00:14:42
'Neruda' plumbs the man behind the legend -
10 best books of April: the Monitor's picks2018-04-14 00:14:42
From Greek mythology to Southern cuisine to a final outing for a beloved detective, here are the 10 April books that most impressed the Monitor's boo -
'Wild is the Wind' explores those things made all the more beautiful because they can’t last2018-04-14 00:14:42
'Wild is the Wind' explores those things made all the more beautiful because they can’t last -
'Greeks Bearing Gifts' will be the penultimate in the popular 'Bernie Gunther' series begun in Nazi Germany2018-04-14 00:14:42
'Greeks Bearing Gifts' will be the penultimate in the popular 'Bernie Gunther' series begun in Nazi Germany -
'Two Sisters' follows a father trying to bring his two daughters home from jihad in Syria2018-04-14 00:14:42
'Two Sisters' follows a father trying to bring his two daughters home from jihad in Syria -
Author Daniel Kalder discusses the strange and scary world of 'dictator literature'2018-04-14 00:14:42
Tyrants, it turns out, like to write. And they like to force people to read their books. -
'See What Can Be Done' is a testament to the breadth of Lorrie Moore’s intellect2018-04-14 00:14:42
'See What Can Be Done' is a testament to the breadth of Lorrie Moore’s intellect
The New York Review of Books
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The Key to Everything2018-04-19 12:30:42
Geoffrey West spent most of his life as a research scientist and administrator at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, running programs concerned not w -
Pictures of the Jazz Age2018-04-19 11:30:02
The celebrated photographer Berenice Abbott, who began her career as Man Ray’s darkroom assistant in Paris from 1923 to 1926 and shot her first -
Jaw-Jaw Better Than War-War2018-04-19 08:00:12
After six years in which he never traveled outside his country, never met with a foreign head of state, and maintained relations ranging from frosty t -
1968: When the Communist Party Stopped a French Revolution2018-04-19 03:00:36
Once it lost the Communist Party (PCF) as the mediating force to represent its grievances, the French working class fulfilled Herbert Marcuse’s -
Aiming for a Nuke-Free Korea: Bold Diplomacy or Dangerous Delusion?2018-04-18 03:00:18
How the wildly unpredictable Trump administration might handle a proposal to fundamentally alter the geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast -
The Revolution That Wasn’t2018-04-17 14:00:22
Four years after the flight from Kiev of Petro Poroshenko’s predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, who was forced out by months of protests that paraly -
Shinzo Abe, Pursued by Scandal2018-04-17 05:52:50
How Shinzo Abe performs in his meeting with President Trump matters more than usual, for at home, he is under unprecedented pressure. A pair of scanda -
My Kurdish Oppressor2018-04-16 03:00:05
For a time, Iraq’s northern region, Kurdistan, tried to disassociate itself from the rest of the country and represent itself as a new country, -
Steve DiBenedetto: A Denatured Humanism2018-04-15 03:00:41
On the evening that I first walked out of Steve DiBenedetto’s new exhibition of paintings, “Toasted with Everything,” I looked -
The Crazed Euphoria of Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Zama’2018-04-14 03:00:49
In Antonio Di Benedetto’s novel Zama, there is no shortage of brutality. Not so in Lucrecia Martel's film adaptation. She is kinder to her prot -
‘Drawing Is Always a Struggle’: An Interview with Art Spiegelman2018-04-13 03:00:32
Claudia Dreifus: Did creating Maus help you come to terms with the difficulties of growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors? Art Spiegelman: Whe -
Black Pictures2018-04-12 11:30:22
Gustave Flaubert’s next best seller after Madame Bovary was Salammbô, a historical novel about a revolt of mercenaries in third-century-BC
Books
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Reflects On 'Ambition And Manhood In America'2018-04-23 14:26:03
Gregory Pardlo's new memoir, Air Traffic, chronicles his complicated relationship with his father, a labor organizer who lost his job following the a -
'Art Of The Wasted Day' Makes A Case For Letting The Mind Wander2018-04-23 13:09:11
Patricia Hampl's sharp new book argues that daydreaming is a vital part of life. Maureen Corrigan says, after reading it, "you'll understand more o -
Muggles Rejoice: 'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' Is Now On Broadway2018-04-23 13:00:00
The play, co-written by J.K. Rowling, opened on Sunday and picks up where the last novel left off, with Harry sending his son off to Hogwarts. -
Ronan Farrow On #MeToo, Diplomacy, And The 'War On Peace'2018-04-23 10:06:30
The newly minted Pulitzer winner talks about his latest work. -
Goldberg's 'Suicide Of The West' Tackles Ills Of Identity Politics2018-04-23 04:59:00
Steve Inskeep talks to National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg about his new book, Suicide of the West. Goldberg argues that the "miracle" of l -
In 'At My Table,' Nigella Lawson Celebrates Home Cooking2018-04-23 04:59:00
Steve Inskeep talks to author Nigella Lawson about her latest cookbook: At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking. She says that home cooking is a cr -
Inez Burns' Abortion Clinic Was One Of San Francisco's Worst Kept Secrets2018-04-22 07:42:00
Inez Burns performed illegal abortions in California in the early 1900s. She was a shrewd real estate entrepreneur, and eventually became the target o -
'Bring The War Home' Shows 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists Are Really Part Of A Pack2018-04-22 07:40:00
Kathleen Belew's new book explores the impact of the Vietnam War on America's white power movement; Belew says that movement was behind a lot of dom -
Who Cares If They're Cute? This Zoologist Accepts Animals On Their Own Terms2018-04-22 07:39:00
Zoologist Lucy Cooke says humans aren't doing animals any favors when we moralize their behavior. Her book The Truth About Animals is organized aroun -
In 'Head On,' Killer Robots, Dogged Gumshoes ... And A Very Important Cat2018-04-22 07:00:24
John Scalzi returns to the world of Lock In — where people incapacitated by a strange disease can re-enter the world through robot avatars &mdas -
NPR Poetry Month: Andrea Davis Pinkney2018-04-21 17:34:00
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with children's book author and poet Andrea Davis Pinkney about her picks from the #NPRPoetry submissions. -
In 'Chasing Hillary,' Reporter Chronicles A Decade Spent Covering Hillary Clinton2018-04-21 17:34:00
New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, author of a new memoir, talks to Michel Martin about the media's focus on the Hillary Clinton email scandal and
