Nov 14 2022: In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Margaret Renkl explores the importance of University Presses:
Many important manuscripts would not see the light of day if they were measured against expectations for nationwide sales. University presses take up titles that ...
Nov 10 2022: Stephanie Guerdan started working in the children’s book department of HarperCollins Publishers six years ago. It was a dream job – just not a dream paycheck. The $33,500-a-year salary was well below a livable wage in New York City, but Guerdan didn’t ask for more. “I ...
Nov 08 2022: On November 7, Judge Florence Pan released her memorandum opinion blocking Penguin Random House from acquiring rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster—and in the final analysis, after a year of legal wrangling and a three-week trial that captivated the publishing ...
Nov 04 2022: Brexit, Covid, war, climate disasters, a tanking economy, political instability, global insecurity, a sense of impending doom. There’s a single word for this, and it has just become Collins Dictionary’s word of the year: permacrisis.
The word is defined as “an ...
Nov 02 2022: Thomas Cahill, "a multilingual scholar who wrote a surprise 1995 bestseller demonstrating to the world how a small band of Irish monks collected and protected the jewels of Western civilization after the fall of the Western Roman Empire," died October 18, the New York ...
Nov 01 2022: Julie Powell—the writer who chronicled a year cooking her way through the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, leading to popular food blog, and later a biopic starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep—died last week at her home in upstate New York. ...
Oct 31 2022: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House's acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster. At press time, Judge Florence Y. Pan's opinion was not yet public as the parties still need to agree on redactions to protect confidential information, but in a ...
Oct 23 2022: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack he suffered while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York state two months ago, his agent has confirmed.
The 75-year-old author, who received death threats from Iran in the 1980s ...
Clytemnestra
by Costanza Casati
Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in this propulsive and richly drawn debut.
Hotel Cuba
by Aaron Hamburger
A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana.
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Few writers paint three-dimensional characters with such verve and humanism.
―Booklist (starred review)
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