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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…
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride – Roshani Chokshi
Summary: A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in…
36. The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry. Anna Rose Johnson. 2024. 192 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: “What are we going…
Like My Book Title? Thanks, I Borrowed It.
You see it everywhere, even if you don’t always recognize it: the literary allusion. Quick! Which two big novels of…
AAP Announces 2024 Hawkins, PROSE Award Winners
The Association of American Publishers has announced that Princeton University Press has won the 2024 R.R. Hawkins Award for excellence…
Shadow Games and Other Sinister Stories of Show Business available for pre-order!
“Shadow Games is a page-turning, gut-wrenching barnburner of a book.”—Robert Bloch Ed here: My first cousin Bobby Driscoll was a…
Poem inspired by New York mugging wins top prize in National Poetry Competition | Books
A poem inspired by the author’s experience of being mugged has won the first prize of £5,000 in the National…
Around The World in 1896: See Colorized & Upscaled Footage of Egypt, Venice, Istanbul, New York City, London & More
The YouTube channel Lost in Time has taken footage from the legendary Lumière brothers, originally shot in 1896, then upscaled…
Spies Like Us: On David McCloskey’s “Moscow X”
LATE IN David McCloskey’s Moscow X (2023), the protagonist, Sia Fox, tells her partner on an operation, who is also…
Wallow Around and Live! | Chantal McStay
On October 13, 1966, the artist Marta Minujín invited sixty Argentine celebrities to a large room, ushered them to seats…
Scientists of Faith: 28 Stories of Brilliant Scientists with Remarkable Faith in God – Christy Monson & William Luong (Illustrator)
Summary: Can faith in God and belief in science coexist? Coudl our love of God inspire our love of His…
Becky’s Book Reviews: 33. Ferris
Ferris. Kate DiCamillo. 2024. 240 pages. [Source: Library] [MG Fiction, J Fiction, Realistic, Historical] First sentence: It was the summer…
A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered.
Tommy Orange sat at the front of a classroom in the Bronx, listening as a group of high school students…
PW Talks with Jay Stephens
Stephens returns with Dwellings (Oni, Apr.), a horror anthology drawn in the style of 1960s kids comic books. I immediately…
Antiques Fate by Barbara Allan
Ed Gorman’s blog: Antiques Fate by Barbara Allan skip to main | skip to sidebar Antiques Fate by Barbara Allan…
Romantasy, AI and Palestinian voices: publishing trends emerge at London book fair | London book fair
Palestine, artificial intelligence and romantasy were high on the agenda at this week’s London book fair. More than 30,000 agents,…
The Book of Colour Concepts: A New 800-Page Celebration of Color Theory, Including Works by Newton, Goethe, and Hilma af Klint
The Book of Colour Concepts will soon be published by Taschen in a multilingual edition, containing text in English, French,…
Vincent O. Carter at 100: A Voyage of the Mind
BORN ON JUNE 23, 1924, in Kansas City, Missouri, Vincent O. Carter first encountered Europe as a young soldier during…
Mourning Navalny | Christian Caryl
On February 16, not long after news of the death of Alexey Navalny became public, television cameras caught Russian president…
Love & Luck – Jenna Evans Welch
St. Patrick’ Day 2024 is almost upon us, so I thought a little stroll through Ireland felt timely… Summary: I…
32. The Girl Who Sang
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival. Estelle Nadel. Illustrated by Sammy Savos. 2024. 272 pages.…