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The New Yorker
Civil Rights
The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch
The New Yorker - Casey Cep
Harper Lee’s beloved father figure became a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway. Is he still a hero? Only Jesus made his father more famous. Harper Lee’s father was
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Self-help
This Instagram artist's mock self-help books are honestly too relatable
Mashable - Laura Byager
How to make dysfunctional love last forever is a self-help book I'd personally be very, very interested to read. Unfortunately, it's not a real …
Rick Timmeradded this to Health & Self
'It's a movement': how the Barefoot Investor changed what's in our wallets
The Guardian - Brigid Delaney
When you see all your worldly possessions burn in front of you, it changes your perspective on ‘stuff’ Scott Pape When do you know someone’s made the leap from being a run-of-the-mill financial adviser
mthungeradded this to Court of Leaves
20th Century
What Not: lost feminist novel that anticipated Brave New World finally finds its time
The Guardian - Alison Flood
Huxley’s Alpha Double plus to Epsilon Minus caste system appears to have sprung straight from Macaulay’s grading system Sarah Lonsdale A forgotten feminist dystopian novel, a story of eugenics and newspaper
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Women's News
Why French Women Feel Young at 50 by Mylène Desclaux – digested read
The Guardian - John Crace
C’est impossible. Un moment je was a young woman with un gorgeous lover, then I left him and met another gorgeous lover and had a child, puis I left that gorgeous lover and met yet another gorgeous lover
Arnie Aceroadded this to Books
NPR
Best Books of 2018 : NPR
NPR - Produced Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer, Beth Novey and Meghan Sullivan | Executive Producer: Ellen Silva Designed Alice Goldfarb – Published Nov. 27, 2018
Use the filters below to explore more than 300 titles NPR staff and critics loved this year. (You can also combine filters!) Want even more recommendations? Check out our favorite books from 2017, 2016,
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Time for the Eyes to Adjust
The New Yorker - Linn Ullmann
Audio: Linn Ullmann reads. To see, to remember, to comprehend. It all depends on where you stand. The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving
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Best dead tree books for holiday gifting
CNET - by Dan Ackerman,
Find a great gift idea with these books that are only available, or only really work, in analog form.
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The Arts
John le Carré’s Next Novel to Land in 2019
The New York Times - By JOHN WILLIAMS
George Smiley is not coming back (yet), but John le Carré is. The renowned spy novelist’s next book, “Agent Running in the Field,” will be published in October 2019, his publisher Viking announced today.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Asperger Syndrome
De-Nazifying the “DSM”: On “Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna”
lareviewofbooks.org - By Andrew Scull
FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES now, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, or DSM for short, has exercised a …
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The Theatre
‘Dear Larry, What on earth do you expect me to say?’ Inside the letters that made the National Theatre - Dramatic Exchanges
The Telegraph - By Dominic Cavendish
These gossipy letters between theatrical stars give us a backstage pass to the NT, finds Dominic Cavendish Five years ago, in The National Theatre Story, which ran to more than 800 pages, Daniel Rosenthal
Storage Ideas
Don’t Buy Me Books!
bookriot.com - Katherine Marciniak
I’m a pretty simple person to shop for if you’re planning on giving me a gift. (And I’m all for that, by the way). I like tea and Post-it notes and …
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The Arts
Suddenly, Poets Are More Willing to Address Public Concerns. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How.
The New York Times - By TRACY K. SMITH
In the mid-1990s, when I was a student of creative writing, there prevailed a quiet but firm admonition to avoid composing political poems. It was too dangerous an undertaking, one likely to result in
The Guardianadded this to Books
Wales
Literary agent ordered to pay $500,000 to Australian author Kate Morton after lawsuit loss
The Guardian - Australian Associated Press
Internationally bestselling Australian author Kate Morton has fended off a lawsuit by her former literary agent, who instead has to pay the writer more than $500,000. Selwa Anthony sued the author in New
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Cold War
John le Carré to tackle 'division and rage' of 2018 in new novel
The Guardian - Alison Flood
John le Carré is set to confront “the division and rage at the heart of our modern world” in a newnovel set in London in 2018 that will be published next year. Agent Running in the Field follows a 26-year-old
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Harry Potter
Aldi has the best Christmas present idea for Harry Potter fans
Good Housekeeping
The magic lives on If you know a Harry Potter fan whose copies of the books are looking a little shabby after they were released all those years ago, …
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Cotton Candy
My Music
The New Yorker - Campbell McGrath
Audio: Read by the author. My music belongs to me and it is awesome. My music is way better than your music, your music is trash, garbage stench of a hot summer night behind the dumpsters at Taco Bell,
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Time Travel
‘The best fun in millimetres’: great books about miniature worlds
The Guardian - Simon Garfield
We need to deal with the two giants of miniature at the very start. Gulliver’s Travels and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are a shrink’s dream, and these masterworks cast such a long shadow that there’s
Best Popular Science Books of 2018 (pg. 9)
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"Once again, Ananthaswamy delivers a book that has all the intrigue of science fiction while remaining rooted in the scientific real, however …
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Cirrus
Prognosis
The New Yorker - Meena Alexander
You’ll be better tomorrow And the next and the next. Our window crammed with bees, Geese cavorting on the hill A green pond where we floated Never dreaming such a fate Might befall one of us Mad dance
Los Angeles Review of Booksadded this to LARB Blog
Los Angeles
Revisiting 301, 302, Park Chul-soo’s Stylish Film About Food, Sex, and Other Horrors
lareviewofbooks.org - By Colin Marshall
This is one in a series of essays on important pieces of Korean cinema freely available on the Korean Film Archive’s Youtube channel, most recently …
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“The Most Exhilarating Moments of His Life”: On Charles Sprawson’s “Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero”
lareviewofbooks.org - By Antonia Cundy
DRIVING AROUND FINLAND last summer, I was overwhelmed by the color blue. Flecks of orange salmon flesh and veins of forest green leaves were drowned …
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David Walliams
David Walliams calls for 'safeguarding' of libraries
The Guardian - Press Association
David Walliams, the comedian turned bestselling children’s author, has called for the “safeguarding” of libraries. Walliams, author of Mr Stink and Gangsta Granny, said that “access to reading” should
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East London
Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert review – an urban botanical sleuth
The Guardian - Jon Day
A generation of nature writers have eschewed the grand narratives of writing abroad in favour of staying closer to home In his essay The Parish and the Universe the poet Patrick Kavanagh distinguished
Drawing
Sunday Mailbag: Art Books?
artworkmag.com - www.artworkmag.com
2 hours ago - By Tom Richmond Q: Besides your book, what books do you think should be on any artist/cartoonist bookshelf? It can be instructional or …
The Guardian
Guardian best books of 2018: across fiction, politics, food and more | Books | The Guardian
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Poem of the week: Event by Charles Tomlinson
The Guardian - Carol Rumens
Event Nothing is happening Nothing A waterdrop Soundlessly shatters A gossamer gives Against this unused space A bird Might thoughtlessly try its voice But no bird does On the trodden ground Footsteps
Patch
Rotary Club
Rotary Club of Wilmette Collects 20,400 Books For Chgo Schools
Patch - richard brill
Rotary Club of Wilmette Collects 20,400 Books For Inner-City Schools Echoing last year's record, The Rotary Club of Wilmette collected about 20,400 …
Harry Potter
#63 - HappyPottermas Part 1: A Conversation Across the Pond
libsyn.com - booksbetween.libsyn.com
Intro Hi everyone! And welcome to Books Between - a podcast for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who wants to connect kids between 8-12 to …
New York Public Library
Open Book Hour: It's Cold Outside
nypl.org - www.nypl.org
We're having a book social! We hope you’ll come and share a book you loved reading or a book you plan to read ! What to expect at an Open Book Hour …