Tag: Books

Ron DeSantis Finally Admits War on Books Has Been a Total Disaster

“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 […]

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Gen 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. […]

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The 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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Why 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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Best 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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5 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 […]

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Florida’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 […]

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Florida’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 […]

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Poetry’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 […]

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The 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 […]

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How 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 […]

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Best 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, […]

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Donald 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 […]

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Best 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” […]

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The 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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