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Book Riot Launches New Release Index for Mystery & Thriller Fans
Book Riot introduced the New Release Index, a searchable database that lists upcoming mystery and thriller titles by release date, letting readers filter by genre and save favorites to a personal Watchlist. The tool is bundled with the All Access membership, which costs $6 per month and also unlocks premium articles.
Bloomsbury General announced it will publish "Our Later Years", an anthology written by the women of New Ground Cohousing, a feminist‑utopia community in North London. The collection examines how people can enjoy a creative and fulfilling third age.
HarperCollins Children's Books announced the acquisition of Beth McColl’s upcoming teen series, “Georgia Nicholson.” The move targets readers who grew up with Lottie Brooks and positions HarperCollins to capture a fresh slice of the young‑adult market.
A manager at Chicago’s City Lit bookstore prohibited the reading of Gabrielle Zevin’s bestseller, citing the author’s alleged Zionist views. The move has ignited a heated debate among writers, publishers, and advocacy groups about the role of politics in literary...
The Autistic Culture Podcast is hosting a live Zoom book‑club session on Wednesday at 8 am PT/11 am ET to discuss Susan Choi’s novel Trust Exercise, the 2019 National Book Award winner and Pulitzer finalist. The meeting ties the book’s exploration of memory, truth, and neurodivergent experience...
The review covers two recent memoirs: Maggie Nelson’s 68‑page experimental piece Pathemata, which uses autofiction to examine chronic jaw pain, grief and marital strain, and Jonathan Tepper’s Shooting Up, a sprawling account of growing up in a 1980s Spanish missionary...
In the past week AI moved from theory to controversy across the cultural sector. The New York Times dismissed a freelance critic for using AI to draft a book review, and Hachette pulled a novel suspected of AI authorship, marking publishing’s first...
My dear friend and former Altimeter Group partner @CharleneLi and co-author Dr. Katia Walsh, one of the world's first chief AI officers, have a new book out. 🙌 This might be the book executives and boards didn't know they need until...
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Tor announced the acquisition of Michael Sala's epic fantasy series "Gods of the Hollow Wild," Penguin UK pre-empted the six‑figure YA debut "Death Wish," and Scribner UK secured Sarah Thomas's second novel "Inheritance." The three deals signal aggressive title‑building by...
This is the book for every slightly weird person you know. That means every person you know.
The story of Mendeleev discovering the periodic table in a dream is completely false, and the truth is far more useful. He didn't need the freedom of a dream, he needed a deadline. A tight book contract forced him to...
In this episode, host Bhakti Shrungarpre talks with medical anthropologist Nikhil Pandhi about his anthology *Love in the Time of Caste*, a collection of 17 Dalit love stories that blend violence, desire, and everyday intimacy. Pandhi explains how his ethnographic...
I found a book at Dollarama. It has ten commandments distilled from Tom Hanks’s life. The ninth one… stopped me cold. This week’s Lantern: https://t.co/X3J4fdURVD https://t.co/1lwSUSZut8
This year's list: The Going to Bed Book The Potty Book for Boys Who Pooped on Me?
Aaron Matz’s review of Dan Sperrin’s *State of Ridicule* argues that literary political satire has faded because modern governance is too intricate and mass culture overwhelms traditional mockery. He notes that television and streaming now host the most incisive satire,...
