“I can tell you from everything I know about it, he’s going to be found guilty,” Cohen, the former Trump lawyer, said during The New Republic’s Stop Trump Summit in October. “This is the Al Capone theory,” he added. “They didn’t get him on murder, extortion, racketeering, prostitution, etc., they got him on tax evasion. […]
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White Author Caught ‘Review Bombing’ Books By People Of Color Claims She’s Not Racist, Blames Autism
NewsOne Featured Video Last December, we reported the story of Cait Corrain, a debut author who threw away her bag like no one before by creating several fake Goodreads accounts, which she used to “review bomb” other new authors while up-voting her own book, Crown of Starlight—until she got caught. Not only did internet sleuths […]
Read MoreGen Z is bringing back reading
Here’s a tip for older folks looking to keep up with the latest trends among young people: Go to the library. It’s a “surprising Gen Z plot twist,” The Guardian said. Young adults and adolescents — folks born between 1997 and 2012 — are really into reading. Real books, the kind you find on paper. […]
Read MoreOff the Shelf: Meditations on middle age
“Trust the process.” It’s a phrase that gets thrown around a lot, but I still often doubt the process. I’ll cringe at a video on social media, for example, of somebody making over a decrepit home, but ultimately find myself smiling at how lovely the final product turns out. I found myself with similar warring […]
Read MoreYangsze Choo’s 6 favorite works about love and human connection
When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Novelist Yangsze Choo is the best-selling author of “The Ghost Bride” and “The Night Tiger,” both of which mix history and folklore. In her new novel, “The Fox Wife,” a […]
Read MoreThe Messy Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
In Albee, strong emotions and dissatisfactions emerged from the marrow of intelligent, passionate, sometimes monstrous (and very often hilarious) men and women. Albee’s upbringing made him the perfect person to write about the deep pathological weirdness of American family relationships. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1928, Albee never knew the identity of his biological parents […]
Read MoreThe Drama of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Spilled Into Real Life
In Albee, strong emotions and dissatisfactions emerged from the marrow of intelligent, passionate, sometimes monstrous (and very often hilarious) men and women. Albee’s upbringing made him the perfect person to write about the deep pathological weirdness of American family relationships. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1928, Albee never knew the identity of his biological parents […]
Read MoreWhy Do We Know So Little About the Womb?
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard Buy on Bookshop Ecco, 336 pp., $29.99 Of course, there were downsides, too. Internal gestation didn’t just reshape our reproductive organs, but pulled in the immune system and the metabolic system, too. As we became placental mammals, Bohannon writes, “the entire female body […]
Read MoreThe New Science of the Womb
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard Buy on Bookshop Ecco, 336 pp., $29.99 Of course, there were downsides, too. Internal gestation didn’t just reshape our reproductive organs, but pulled in the immune system and the metabolic system, too. As we became placental mammals, Bohannon writes, “the entire female body […]
Read MoreKwame Alexander’s 6 must-read books about the art of poetry
When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Writer and poet Kwame Alexander is the showrunner for “The Crossover,” the Emmy-winning TV series based on his children’s book of the same name. He is also the editor of […]
Read MoreBest novels of 2024: top books to read this year
Day by Michael Cunningham Many writers have responded to the Covid pandemic by “fashioning dystopias”, said Claire Allfree in The Daily Telegraph. Not Michael Cunningham. “One of America’s most refined stylists”, he prefers, in the elegiac “Day”, to “see lockdown as a microcosm of life at its most yearningly restless”. The novel is focused on […]
Read MoreThe Populist Left Is Much Bigger Than AOC, Sanders, and Warren
Sanders did far, far better than expected but still fell short, a result with myriad explanations—including, in some small part, Warren’s decision not to endorse him (a calculation that earned her vitriolic blowback but serious vice presidential consideration by the Clinton camp). Yet his insurgent campaign—and the ultimate victory of Donald Trump—fundamentally altered the American […]
Read MoreThe Socialist Moment Hasn’t Passed. It’s Yet to Come.
Sanders did far, far better than expected but still fell short, a result with myriad explanations—including, in some small part, Warren’s decision not to endorse him (a calculation that earned her vitriolic blowback but serious vice presidential consideration by the Clinton camp). Yet his insurgent campaign—and the ultimate victory of Donald Trump—fundamentally altered the American […]
Read More5 alluring books to read in February
We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Whether you’re looking for a gift for your bookish Valentine or something to stimulate your mind, this month’s book releases will not disappoint. Here are a few books to look forward to reading this February. ‘Fourteen […]
Read MoreBest memoirs and biographies to read in 2024
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears In January 2008 – 11 months after the notorious occasion when she shaved off her own hair in a Los Angeles salon – Britney Spears was asked by her parents to meet them at their beach house, said Anna Leszkiewicz in The New Statesman. “There she was ambushed […]
Read MoreFlorida’s Unhinged War on Books Enters “Goblin Butts Are Sexual” Territory
Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Moonves of sexual assault. He stepped down as CEO of CBS and denied all of […]
Read MoreFlorida’s War on Books Enters “Goblin Butts Are Sexual” Territory
Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Moonves of sexual assault. He stepped down as CEO of CBS and denied all of […]
Read MoreBlack History Month: Books To Read Amid Growing Bans
NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kali9 / Getty UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. Feb. 1, 2024: This year’s observation of Black History Month is coming at a time when there is an increasing number of books being banned, with a good portion of those books being about Black history. One place in particular where those books are […]
Read MoreOff the Shelf: A quirky pandemic love story that hits close to home
I’ve written before about how difficult it is for me to read novels in which the COVID-19 pandemic plays a central theme. The virus doesn’t feel far enough in the past to have already become a subgenre of historical fiction, and trying to stay focused on books about the pandemic often ends with me staring […]
Read MoreRachel Slade’s 6 favorite works about the modernized western world
When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Rachel Slade is the author of “Into the Raging Sea,” a 2018 best-seller about the deadly demise of a container ship. Her new book, “Making It in America,” shadows the […]
Read MorePoetry’s surprising renaissance in the UK
Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest since accurate official figures from BookScan began a decade ago. But what’s making more Brits turn to verse and why are some in […]
Read MoreThe Hugh Hefner memoir fallout
The widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has sparked controversy with a new memoir that lifts the lid on life at the Playboy Mansion. A former resident of the infamous property in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles and another former wife of the pornographer have both questioned Crystal Hefner’s motivation for writing the book, “Only Say […]
Read MoreHow Lucy Sante Wrote a Revelatory Memoir
a rather eerie daily entertainment in the warmer months was provided by a group of middle-aged transvestites who would lean against parked cars in their minidresses and bouffants and issue forth perfect, obviously church-trained four-part doo-wop harmonies.… For them, as for the majority of the people on the street—including, so we liked to think, us—New […]
Read MoreBest crime thriller novels coming in 2024
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett Barrett’s short stories have been “gathering acclaim for the past decade”, and now he has written his first novel, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Sunday Times. “Wild Houses” is a “thrillingly moreish novel with some of the sharpest dialogue I’ve read in any recent debut”. Set in County Mayo, Ireland, […]
Read MoreSearching for Guatemala’s Stolen Children
During the darkest period of state terror, in the early 1980s, children fled or were left behind at the scenes of horrific massacres; soldiers sometimes adopted them as “pets” to run errands or shine shoes on military bases, while others were dropped at orphanages or were likely handed over for private adoptions. In a case […]
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Relationship With Lindsey Graham Is About to Go Very Bad
“Now, if you’re doing your job as president,” Graham said, a defense substantially at odds with the account documented in Isikoff and Klaidman’s book, “and January the sixth, he was still president trying to find out if the election, you know, was on the up and up—I think his immunity claim, I don’t know how […]
Read MoreWhy Are Women Reading and Listening to Porn in Public?
Erotic novels have always been women’s domain. All those old paperbacks featuring a Fabio-esque shirtless man riding a horse in front of a castle you used to see at your grandma’s house — those were all smut. “Romance” novels are often just a nicer term for books about a woman getting dicked down, and the […]
Read MoreAlexis Soloski’s 6 favorite works about music, theater and the performing arts
When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Alexis Soloski is a culture reporter at The New York Times and a former theater critic. “Here in the Dark,” her debut novel, is a psychological thriller about a young […]
Read MoreOff the Shelf: Unfinished Hammond manuscript is biting origin story of Alaska Permanent Fund
When, in 2020, I considered moving to Alaska, there was no shortage of online forums, Reddit threads and other resources ready to answer everything I could possibly want to know about relocating to the Last Frontier. One of the searches suggested to me by Google was, “Do you get paid to live in Alaska?” Intrigued, […]
Read MoreBest politics books: read your way around Westminster
Navigate your way around the goings-on in Parliament, with these insights into the processes and personalities in the corridors of power. Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart Currently topping the bestseller charts three months after its publication, this memoir of 10 years as a Tory MP, spanning four government departments, is “genuinely eye-opening stuff” […]
Read MoreThe Book of Ayn Trolls Us All
Instead, she distracts herself with more immediate tasks: soothing her wounded ego and resurrecting her artistic brand. Reveling in the apparent originality of making a Randian worldview her entire identity, Anna flees Manhattan for Los Angeles. She’s connected with a manager who wants her to write a half-hour comedy about Rand, whose work she has […]
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