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November 15, 2024, 7:17pm I don’t know how I still manage to be surprised by the odd, odd choices of Hollywood auteurs. I’m a woman of the world. I should know better. Yet the latest literary IP to hit the development pipeline strikes this viewer as an uncanny marriage of slow-boiling spirituality and high-octane male
Barnes and Noble has announced its winner for the 2024 Book of the Year, and it’s James by Percival Everett. The announcement page says, “We’ve bent your ear about James all year, and for good reason. […] You may think you know Huck Finn, but how well do you know Jim? Flip the script on an American
November 15, 2024, 12:45pm Laughter and terror: these will most certainly be the primary contributions of a second Donald Trump administration to the national mood. Article continues after advertisement To wit: a new report from Columbia Journalism Review details a letter from Trump’s lawyer sent to the New York Times and Penguin Random House seeking
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year is…. James is Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year. I
The following is a story from The Michigan Quarterly Review. Boermans grew up in the Dutch countryside and studied Media Arts at the Kunstacademie. Her debut novel, A Long List of Shortcomings, was published in 2021 and nominated for the Hebban Debut Prize. In 2022 her second novel, Love Interbellum, was published and nominated for
When I write or plan content, or record podcasts, or whatever for Book Riot, I know who I’m speaking to. Our readers largely lean liberal, if not progressive; they value empathy and knowledge, they are for feminism and inclusion. And so I know that our readers were largely horrified, sad, scared, all of the above
November 14, 2024, 11:34am InfoWars—that miserable cesspool of a conspiracy news site, spun from the flax between Alex Jones’s ears—has a new owner. And this one has a sense of humor! Maybe even a soul! Following a well-publicized bankruptcy auction, Jones’s brainwashing platform is now the official property of The Onion. The satirical news site
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar “Make this debut novel from poet Kaveh Akbar one of the first books you read in 2024. Cyrus Shams is a man obsessed with the concept of martyrdom. It’s this obsession that leads him to explore his family history, from his uncle, who inspired Iranian soldiers by dressing as the angel
In the wake of the election, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss what Project 2025 has in store for authors and book bans. Tokuda-Hall explains Project 2025’s misuse of terms like “critical race theory” and “pornography” and how these will be used to attack mainstream content, especially material by
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 160-page Orbital by Samantha Harvey was announced last night as the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize.
November 13, 2024, 12:52pm EveryLibrary, a non-profit dedicated to supporting public and school libraries across the country via local grassroots organizing, has been tracking anti-library legislation since 2012. Between the onslaught of book bans and censorship petitions, they’ve naturally had a busy few years. But last week was another bellwether. On Tuesday night, the PAC
Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar Meghna and Rani used to be best friends. They’re not anymore, and Meghna is tired of being compared to her former perfect, do-no-wrong, brilliant former bestie Rani. Rani, on the other hand, is over having no agency in her own life. All Rani wants this year is to
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My heart breaks for queer teens right now and all the other people facing a government that puts them in danger. The fight continues, but it’s also important to give yourself space to grieve, to take care of yourself and your community. I was particularly thinking of queer teens when I put together this list,
November 12, 2024, 8:43am It’s a week after America’s latest, and far from greatest, election, a day that many of us are still processing. I have so much to say, as we all do, and I’ll say it elsewhere soon. But for the moment, let’s do the radical thing of not thinking about it, to the
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Voting Opens for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards Voting is now open for the bookish internet’s annual popularity contest: the Goodreads choice awards. I have never done this, but you could probably win your theoretical