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Nerd Rating: 7. Fake maps of fake stories is pretty high up there. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss (Viking, August 6th) Publisher’s Description: Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look

September 25, 2024, 2:14pm Attention, bookworms and fellow travelers! Verso, the beloved left wing publishing house and hub for radical thought, is in big financial trouble. The company’s UK distributor, Marston Book Publishing, filed for bankruptcy this July—and left behind some unsettled debts. Verso explained how those debts have affected operations in a series of

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1. Wednesday, September 4th, I was in my home office in Athens, Georgia. I was working on a piece about attending a memorial for Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta, where I’m from, where I was attempting to address what it meant to be from a region scarred by white male violence. I was trying

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September 23, 2024, 9:55am It’s delightful, on the one hand, to have a feverish Book Event. I’m as excited as anyone that we’re doing midnight release parties for literary fiction in the year of our lord 2024. That said, we need to talk about the Rooneyverse. This week, we’re getting a novel—Intermezzo—from Sally Rooney, the

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September 23, 2024, 1:16pm For a brief window between September 29th and November 25th, Earth’s gravity is going to pluck a passing, bus-sized asteroid out of space and pull it into our orbit. This second, mini moon will settle in alongside our first, relatively-mega moon, until it eventually tumbles out of our grasp and continues

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Searches, as our publisher first described to me, explores the nature of artificial intelligence and our complicity with technological capitalism. Through a blend of memoir and cultural criticism, the author Vauhini Vara uses the tools of Big Tech (namely ChatGPT) to critique Big Tech itself, while revealing her own deeply personal digital footprints. Article continues

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Featured image: Kawauchi Rinko, Untitled, 2004; from the series the eyes, the ears. Courtesy the artist and Aperture. Article continues after advertisement To be a woman in Japan is to live with constant conflict. In a country where attitudes toward gender remain extremely conservative, simply being a woman exposes one to many forms of prejudice

On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith This middle grade novel is a super fun mix of Indigenous American folklore in a contemporary setting. Ray Halfmoon, a member of the Cherokee Nation, lives with his grandpa Charlie in Chicago after his parents’ death when he was a child. For the last year,

At four in the afternoon on Monday, February 3, 1997, a uniformed chauffeur in an armored Cadillac drives the Honorable Pamela Harriman from her Paris residence on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Fifteen minutes later he pulls up outside the Hôtel Ritz. As Harriman climbs the red-carpeted steps past the boutiques selling diamonds and into the

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