Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Susanna Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England (gifted link)
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The return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
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Weeks after Alice Munro’s death, daughter tells of dark family secret
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Dear Mr. Borges, which translation should I read?
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Science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin made Schrödinger’s cat famous
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How Mary-Kay Wilmers became Britain’s most influential editor [2019]
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The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
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Alice Munro, Nobel laureate and master of the short story, dies at 92
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Jack Conroy, proletarian author and editor, supported important 20th century US poets
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Paul Auster, the patron saint of literary Brooklyn, dies at 77
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'James' and 'Demon Copperhead': the triumph of literary reimagining of classic books
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What libraries risk when they go entirely digital
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Percival Everett can’t be pinned down
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Trials of the witchy women: Across seven centuries, women have been accused of witchcraft—but what that means often differs wildly, revealing the anxieties of each particular society
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Fifty-five books Scientific American recommends in 2023
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Spotify's push into audiobooks sparks concern among authors
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Has it ever been harder to make a living as an author in the Anglosphere?
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Forgotten to return your library book? Don’t worry about it [library fines are falling out of fashion].
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Independent bookstores are thriving in Texas, and not just in big cities—in suburbs and in small towns, new shops are serving up classics, cocktails, and community
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Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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In his novels and plays, the Norwegian author Jon Fosse has continually probed the limits of the perceptible world
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
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In defense of the beleaguered academic book review
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Strike and Robin return – but JK Rowling really needs an editor
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Review, commentary, analysis based on four books featuring the history and misuse of statistical data
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‘Death Glitch’ looks at what happens after we’ve logged off for good
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Brandon Sanderson is your god
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Where be your jibes now?
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Dani Garavelli on the trials for the murder of Nikki Allan
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I was a sensitivity reader – until I realised why I was hired
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US school librarians vilified as the 'arm of Satan' in book-banning wars
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Kill your own business
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The real nature of Thomas Edison’s genius
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To build a delightful library for kids, start with these ninety-nine books
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What the Suzuki method really taught
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Pajtim Statovci shares his love of Finnish literature and the books that helped him, a child of immigrants, to find his voice
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Don’t feel like a dummy for loving the Dummies guides: The history of the Dummies guides
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The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
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The economist who knows the miracle is over
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Lars Kepler, pen name of husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team, recommend books that take readers beyond fictitious murders to the soul of Stockholm
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With a reputation for having more authors per capita than any other country, Olaf Olafsson leads a literary stroll through Iceland's capital
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What will survive of Philip Larkin
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The Billionaire’s Bard: On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson
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The Talented Mr. Bernardini - A young Italian is accused of pulling off the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he?
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Joan Didion, ‘new journalist’ who explored culture and chaos, dies at 87
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Mel Brooks writes it all down - The comedian will publish his memoirs at the age of ninety-five, and is at work on “History of the World, Part II”
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Brian Herbert on Dune: ‘My father could see into the future'
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‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
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What if everything you learned about human history is wrong?
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