Thrity Umrigar’s Honor is the latest pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Umrigar’s novel, her ninth, follows an American journalist who travels to India, where she was born, to tell the story of a Hindu woman who is brutally attacked…
A collection of Norman Mailer’s political essays, reportedly canceled by Random House, will be published by independent press Skyhorse, the Associated Press reports† A controversy surrounding the late author and planned book erupted earlier this week after journalist Michael Wolff…
Jessamine Chan’s The school for good mothers goes to the small screen. Actor Jessica Chastain’s production company, Freckle Films, chose the rights to Chan’s debut novel, Deadline reports† Chan’s book, published Tuesday by Simon and Schuster, follows a woman who…
The winners of the Costa Book Awards were announced Tuesday, honoring Claire Fuller and Caleb Azumah Nelson among the authors with the annual British Literary Awards. Fuller won the Best Novel Award for Troubled Ground, published in the US last…
January is always a time of mixed feelings for me as a reader. I look back with regret at all the books I haven’t been able to read in the past year, while eagerly anticipating all the new ones to…
In December 2020, the book world couldn’t stop talking about a seriously weird publishing story: A scammer lured authors to send copies of their unpublished manuscripts. Now, just over a year later, the story has taken another unexpected turn. The…
Jon Stewart said he was only joking when he pointed out that the goblin bankers in the Harry Potter movies had similarities with anti-Semitic caricatures of Jewish people, the Guardian reports† Comedian Stewart responded to a clamp his The problem…
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation has announced the winners of the first-ever Silvers-Dudley Awards, presented each year in recognition of outstanding achievements in literary criticism, art writing and journalism. The foundation announced three winners in the field of long-term literary…
Many inveterate readers are looking for an epic journey that will take them to enchanted lands or forbidden planets or, if they are Michael Connelly fans, to rugged Los Angeles. But others, perhaps longtime fans of Edgar Allan Poe, Sherwood…
Cece Bell’s 2014 Kids Graphic Memoir, El Deafo, was not only a Newbury Honor book but also a Kirkus Prize finalist, and it’s easy to see why. With beautiful, colorful illustrations and a keen sense of humor, the author tells…
Peter Bogdanovich, the director, actor and author known for his wide-ranging career and difficult personal life, has passed away at the age of 82. New York Times reports† Bogdanovich worked as a film critic before becoming a director; he became…
Roxane Gay returns to the world of podcasts. the author of bad feminist and hunger Starts The Roxane Gay Agenda later this month with podcast network Luminary, Deadline reports† The series is the new iteration of Hear to killthe podcast…