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Winter is only a few months away. At my library in a seaside community sixty miles south of Boston, one welcome distraction from the plummeting temperatures is our very own [...]

CALIFORNIA AND Texas, calling themselves the Western Forces, have seceded from the Union. Other states are following suit. The president, installed for an unconstitutional third term, vows that the uprising [...]

'And they lived happily ever after. The end.' 'Again.' My poor father, bidden to read the story of the moment over and over again. Long after I could read perfectly [...]

Some of my favorite reading spots in Tel Aviv are public gardens. A peaceful, out-of-the-way place to read is the garden on Arnon Street. The entrance is small and hidden, [...]

MARRIRNA'S KNIGHT (2017, by W. Michael Farmer): Beautifully written and based on a real-life murder mystery, this novel follows the February 1896 disappearance of well-known New Mexico attorney Albert Jennings [...]

A preview of new titles published between September 2022-October 2023 If Donal Ryan writes of sorrows in The Queen of Dirt Island (Doubleday), he also writes of small beauties which [...]

The offering of translated works here is strong, with an impressive roster of old favourites and new talent. The International Booker Prize shortlist represents three continents, and six countries and [...]

BRUCE HAINLEY Claire-Louise Bennett's 'supremely aberrant imaginings' include the 'ductile,' 'embrocated,' and 'gurning'; a book burning that causes 'thick black smoke' to 'swarm and twist' into 'a dragon, a crucifix, [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 72 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

Hilary Mantel In the 1990s Musa Okwonga was a Ugandan scholarship boy at Eton, the school that turned out scores of politicians as well as Bertie Wooster and Captain Hook. [...]

Automotive News asked fixed ops directors and service managers for their favorite books to improve performance, streamline processes and motivate staff. Here are some reviews. Scott Gregg Fixed operations director [...]

This Preview rounds up titles from underrepresented authors and small presses, published in October 2021 Welcome to the first outing of the Discover preview, the home for the hidden gems [...]

The end of another publishing 12-month, and as is customary on the cusp of the new year, it's a time to diet, a time to get fit, a time to [...]

A preview of new titles published between September 2021-August 2022 'When we turn the page we are born again', says the narrator of Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19; the novel asks, [...]

A hit of Italian neorealism ZABRISKIE POINT Recommended by Maximilian Turnbull, musician and member of Badge Epoque Ensemble 'I've been on an Italian cinema kick lately, and I've dived into [...]

LITERARY FICTION Brodie, Emma. Songs in Ursa Major. Knopf. Jun. 2021. 336p. ISBN 9780593318621. $26.95. Downloadable. LITERARY Book publishing veteran Brodie offers a Sixties-set debut featuring rising vocal star Jane [...]

A few things have changed for the Horn Book since our last issue when Martha V. Parravano, 'Keeper of the Horn Book Flame' and the one-and-only recipient of our MVP [...]

GIFTS I HAVE RECEIVED AND TO WHICH I RETURN Carol Reed is from Easton, Maryland. Carol Reed is a parent, a wife, a published poet, a watercolorist, an activist, and [...]

Byline: Laura Regensdorf PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWARD WESTON TAIL Spin As the tabloids chart a supposed diminution in celebrity butts, a new book takes stock of a valued asset 'kim kardashian [...]

BLUF: The FY23 edition of the Petroleum Planning and Operations Smart Book edition is available for download. The FY23 edition of the Petroleum Planning and Operations Smart Book has been [...]

RACHEL KUSHNER A certain scene between Marguerite Duras and Susan Sontag, told to me by someone who was friends with both and seated between them while Susan was visiting Paris, [...]

A preview of new titles published between December 2020-November 2021 The fallout of the US presidential race and certain governments' responses to Covid-19 perhaps prove we are still living in [...]

Traditional hearts and flowers Valentine's Day publishing seems to have morphed into territory that is both sexier and more bittersweet. On the steamier side, we have books like Women on [...]

How the world has changed since 2019! This time last year no one would have predicted that all our certainties would be turned on their head and that we would [...]

I keep hearing: 'The world has changed forever.' And yet this month I've gained sustenance from reading about things that haven't changed, and won't ever change. The way that the [...]

Welcome to August New Titles: Fiction, which is looking rather 'healthier' than usual as a result of a slew of titles moving into this month at the last minute, having [...]

Adult Blackstone On offer are galleys for a trio of 2020 debuts: Pale: A Novel by Edward A. Farmer, a tale of secrets and lies at a 1966 Mississippi cotton [...]

Staff from across the 50 states and territories divulge what they're reading, listening to and watching, and their picks run the gamut from spiritual to sporty, historical fiction to humor. [...]

Make 'em laugh, they say. Well that's easy for them to say, because it's a tall order to get anyone guffawing with the world falling to bits around us. Perhaps [...]