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Susana Polo has left The Mary Sue, a popular “geek girl culture” site she founded in 2011, in order to join Vox Media’s Polygon gaming vertical, FishbowlNY reported Monday. Polo…
Forget new snippets of writing posted on Pottermore: The motherlode of Harry Potter revelations is coming. According to the Guardian, Bloomsbury has published a 544-page bibliography of the series in…
Originally published on Kirkus This winter there’s been some major, surprise announcements about upcoming books: the Harper Lee novel Go Set a Watchman, out this summer, and a new Dr….
Don’t lament the lost days of cutting your fingers on pristine new novels or catching a whiff of that magical, transportive old book smell just yet! A slew of recent…
Books can change the way we feel about ourselves. Sometimes, plots reflect our own experiences, guiding us through the future or refracting our memories through a new lens. Other times,…
At 78 years old, Sister Joan Chittister has been a devoted Roman Catholic nun for six decades. The author of nearly 50 books, she also publishes a candid online blog…
The following quotes were excerpted from The Book Lovers’ Anthology, an anthology edited by The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The book is a collection of quotes about the joys…
Last week, we asked editors at The Huffington Post to share which books they think all men should read, as a way of subverting the typically macho roundups of books…
Burning books is bad enough, but peeing on them is another thing entirely. – Police said Wilson is currently homeless and was using the library’s WiFi to download apps to…
Xu Yong, who has more than 20 photography books to his name, chose to publish only the raw negatives of the images he took of protesters at Tiananmen Square in…
As for HBO, it has optioned two books about Madoff: Laurie Sandell’s “Truth And Consequences: Life Inside The Madoff Family” and Diana Henriques’s “The Wizard Of Lies: Bernie Madoff And…
John P. Craven, a former Navy scientist whose innovations in ocean technology and exploration led to some of the nation’s most celebrated feats of espionage, died on Feb. 12 in…
Originally published on Kirkus February may be the shortest month, but that doesn’t mean there’s any shortage of great books for teens. From survival adventure to magical realism, from real-world…
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Fans and film critics battled to be the dominant voice at the international premiere of “Fifty Shades of Grey” in Berlin Wednesday nightand it was the unrestrained exuberance of the…
February is not only Black History Month, but it is also the month when many titles by Black authors are released. 2015 kicked off with a wide selections of books…
Diverse authors and titles from 2014, such as “The Crossover” by Kwame Alexander and “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson, were highlighted with many awards, causing the audience to cheer…
Rod McKuen, a ubiquitous poet, lyricist and songwriter whose work met with immense commercial success if little critical esteem, died on Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 81. Mr….
Books of The Times By JANET MASLIN – Illustrated. 452 pages. Riverhead Books. $27.95. A version of this review appears in print on January 29, 2015, on page C1 of…
A 250-year-old book by the Enlightenment anti-establishment writer Voltaire is climbing best-seller lists in France weeks after attacks by French-born Islamic extremists that left 20 people dead, including the gunmen….
Literary fever peaks here with the arrival of the year’s most awaited eventthe Boi Mela (Kolkata Book Fair). It’s the world’s largest non-trade book fair (for the general public instead…
A Fox News host raised alarm bells Friday over a university course that studies whiteness, saying that the titles of the books used in the class make it clear that…
There’s no happier relationship than the one between coffee and books, or rather, the relationship between a reader and her coffee and books. There’s a good reason chain bookstores these…
Vampire novelist Anne Rice has a conflicted soul. When we talked to her in 2009, she had abandoned atheism and returned to the Catholicism of her youth, committing herself to…
It’s a children’s book, as most Dr. Seuss books are, but its messages have resonated through a quarter-century because adults love it too, said Philip Nel, director of the program…
Between writing his “Game of Thrones” books, working on the HBO show and killing all your favorite characters, George R. R. Martin doesn’t have a lot of me time ……
How many books have you been “meaning to read”? Personally I’ve avoided contact with the third of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels since Christmas (I know it’ll be all-consuming) and am…
If there’s ever a time you need a little distraction in your life, it’s during the divorce process. That’s why we launched our Divorce Care Package series. With each post,…
www.upworthy.com: Funny how this speech is left out of the history books.
“With a career in the music business spanning over fifty years, Fowley was a singularly unique figure in the realms of rock history.” Fowley worked with a wide range of…