First-year student buys textbooks like a freakin’ dork – The Eyeopener
By Peyton Andino Disclaimer: Like a first-year student believing they should buy all their required textbooks, this story…
Cracking open banned literature at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Last week, I arrived at the Brooklyn Book Festival, New York City’s largest free literary festival, and headed…
Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door
Leonora Carrington The Stone Door NYRB, 2025 In Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door, the unnamed narrator traverses Mesopotamia…
‘A tool in the fight against Amazon’: independent bookshops to begin selling ebooks | Ebooks
The online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able…
Read an exclusive extract from Nigel Latta’s new book Lessons in Living
Nigel Latta was a successful author, host and psychologist. Photo / Supplied A seat at the edge I…
DEENA ELGENAIDI with Nina St. Pierre
Rail: In popular media, we see the stereotype of returning to the homeland as some sort of panacea—a…
Life Itself- Review by Steuart Pennington
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MATTHEW KRESSEL with Amy Goldschlager
Matthew KresselSpace Trucker JessFairwood Press, 2025 Matthew Kressel and I first met at a speculative fiction reading several…
Kirti Bhadresa – The Giller Prize
Kirti Bhadresa’s short story collection, An Astonishment of Stars, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Kirti’s fiction…
Why the Magic Matters: Guilford professor’s new book explores Disney as a gateway to deeper learning
When Jill Peterfeso, Guilford’s Eli Franklin Craven and Minnie Phipps Craven Professor of Religious Studies, initially dreamed up…
New books this week by Lionel Richie, Bora Chung, Richard Osman : NPR
Now that we’re past the equinox, makes sense that darkness is gathering — not just outside our windows,…
Waking Dream – Frank McNally on having intimations of mortality at a book launch – The Irish Times
I don’t expect to be a conscious participant at my own wake when the time comes. But in…