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Like millions of other irreverent young men, I would find my way to 4chan.org, which, like Hegel, was to later give birth to two formidable yet opposing political currents, and which, also like Hegel, was filled with nonsense, though in this case the nonsense was fully intended. Article continues below I had stayed largely on

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The publishing industry definitely did not get the message that the dog days of summer are here. It was a busy week! Here are the most-clicked stories from this week’s Today in Books coverage. NYT Names the 100

It’s the spring of 2021, and the pandemic is beginning to slide away from us in ways that still feel impossible. But there is work to do. There is lost time to make up for. Article continues below Even though I have a debut novel publishing this summer, I have been getting rejection after rejection

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Next week, I’ll be sharing the results of the Our Queerest Shelves Halfway Check-In Survey, but today, I wanted to chat with you about my answers to the questions about my favourite new and backlist queer books I’ve

TODAY: In 1930, Almost 6,000 spiritualists gathered in the Royal Albert Hall for a memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attended by his relatives. The medium Estelle Roberts relayed a private message to Doyle’s widow which she affirmed to be genuine.  “Perhaps I’ve seen enough of the interior lives of that generation of Canadians.” Jonny

Whew, this was a busy one! The New York Times has unveiled its list of the 100 best books of the 21st century so far. A new Zora Neale Hurston novel is coming next year. Books about disability are popular banning targets. It’s officially (finally!) happening: the Uglies adaptation has a release date. These are

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1817, Henry David Thoreau, whose essay “Civil Disobedience” presents an argument for disobedience to an unjust state, is born. View original source here

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Friday at last! Look busy while you catch up on bookish news. This month there is a wide range of books selected offering a wonderful reading list, and certainly at least one book is a great fit for

Shortly after she died, I wrote about Alice Munro and the way her life seemed to parallel that of my late mother’s (aside from the literary canonization). For me, Munro’s stories offered an uncanny window into the lives of my parents: their frustrations, their longings, their regrets. As I wrote at the time: We are

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. NYT Reveals Top 20 Books of the 21st Century The New York Times concluded its week-long rollout of

July 11, 2024, 2:34pm An inspiring group of autonomous writers, artists, and educators have begun organizing online workshops as a way to raise money for Palestinians in Gaza and “divest knowledge and skills from the universities that have been complicit in genocide.” Inspired by the National Students for Justice in Palestine’s Popular University for Gaza (a coordinated

January 7, 2025 would have been Zora Neale Hurston’s 134th birthday, and now it will be the publication date of The Life of Herod the Great, a novel Hurston was still working on when she died in 1960. Per a release, the novel “brings first-century BC Judea to vivid life, and portrays Herod the Great

July 11, 2024, 10:11am I recently took some long flights and found myself puzzling over which books to bring along for the plane ride. So here, in no particular order, are a few guiding principles to help you compile your in-flight library. I’m dedicating this piece to the person on my flight back from Italy

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July 10, 2024, 2:21pm Twenty Canadian authors have withdraw their books and labor from the Scotiabank Giller Prize until it severs its ties to companies “complicit in Israel’s ongoing occupation, displacement and murder of Palestinians.” In a letter to the Giller foundation published earlier today, fifteen authors pulling their 2024 fiction releases from contention for the

With the first half of the year firmly in our rear view — and all the subsequent “best of the year, so far” lists published — it’s time for the Book World to turn our eyes to the rest of the year. LitHub is among the first to toss their hat in the ring with

The Dolphin Hotel, a former hitching post for Jane Austen herself, is set to be converted into student dorms. The 500 year old space is believed to be the oldest inn in Southampton. Ms. Austen made several appearances there, and notably celebrated her eighteenth birthday at a ball on the premises. In its spiffier heyday,

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