Hard Solaces | Colin Thubron
One morning in June 2011 the British writer Jonathan Raban woke with a bewildering sense of frailty and lost balance.…
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Perfect Picture Book Friday! Who Wants a Hug? by Jeff Mack
Susanna Leonard Hill has a feature on her blog called Perfect Picture Book Friday. It is a list of “perfect”…
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror – Edited by Tori Bovalino
Summary: A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath…
The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
Coretta: The Autobiography of Coretta Scott King. Coretta Scott King. Illustrated by Ekua Holmes. 2024. [January] 40 pages. [Source: Library]…
How a Polyamorous Mom Had ‘a Big Sexual Adventure’ and Found Herself
For anyone prone to experiencing secondhand embarrassment, there’s a scene in Molly Roden Winter’s debut, “More: A Memoir of Open…
Obituary: Norman H. Finkelstein
Children’s nonfiction author and former children’s librarian Norman H. Finkelstein, best known for his works exploring aspects of the Jewish…
Striking Writers and Actors March Together on Hollywood Streets
Posted on September 14, 2023 Striking writers and actors marched through Hollywood together yesterday. Thousands of members of the WGA…
Ed Gorman’s blog: NEW From WMG Publishing
USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published more than a hundred novels in thirty years and hundreds and hundreds…
Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney review – portrait of a marriage adrift | Fiction
The Irish writer Cathy Sweeney’s short fiction has been widely praised, her prose likened to that of Samuel Beckett and…
My Neighbor Totoro Inspires a Line of Traditional Japanese Handicrafts
We suppose it’s conceivable that a gift of a wooden Totoro figurine, hand-carved from a single block using 50 different…
Writing Blue | Los Angeles Review of Books
Writing Blue | Los Angeles Review of Books Fund drive extended! Donate now to keep LARB publishing nuanced and illuminating…
Songs of Convenience | Moeko Fujii
Whenever there’s been a turn in my life, I’ve turned toward him. The first afternoon I got to college, worn…
Perfect Picture Book Friday! Simple Machines: Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys by David A. Adler
Susanna Leonard Hill has a feature on her blog called Perfect Picture Book Friday. It is a list of “perfect”…
Our 'Best Reads' of 2023
It’s time to hang up our reviewing hats (for a season) and spend some time with the family for the…
Becky’s Book Reviews: 190. The Blind Side
The Blind Side. Patricia Wentworth. 1939. 224 pages. [Source: Library] [Adult fiction; mystery] First sentence: Craddock House stands at the…
Suleika Jaouad Revisits Bone Marrow Transplant in “American Symphony”
Necessary Optimism After the film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, Ms. Jaouad recalled that someone in the crowd approached…
PRH and Sourcebooks Launch Callisto China
Sourcebooks and Penguin Random House North Asia have launched Callisto China, a new publishing house that will publish Chinese-language translations…
American Journalist and Filmmaker Brent Renaud Killed in Ukraine
Posted on March 13, 2022 American filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud was killed in Irpin, Ukraine. Renaud was reporting from…
Survivors Will Be Shot Again by Bill Crider
Bill Crider’s new Survivors Will Be Shot Again may be my favorite of all the Sheriff Dan Rhodes novels for two reasons.…
Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers | Books
YouTube trumps TikTok as the most popular online platform for young people to discover new books, according to a report…
Novelist Michael Chabon Digitally Re-Creates the Science Fiction & Fantasy Section of His Favorite 1970s Bookstore
Michael Chabon was born in 1963, which placed him well to be influenced by the unpredictable, indiscriminate, and often lurid…
