The Guardianadded this to Books The best recent thrillers – review roundupThe Guardian - Alison FloodTwisting back through time, Stone Mothers is the story of how a covered-up murder will never lie quietly There’s no mystery about who committed the murder in Michelle Paver’s Wakenhyrst (Head of Zeus).
Los Angeles Review of Booksadded this to LARB BlogMary Shelley Fantasy Girlslareviewofbooks.org - By Rachel Feder This essay grew out of two quotidian sources: a pattern I noticed on Twitter, and a dream. The pattern was as follows: as the Frankenstein bicentennial …
The Guardianadded this to BooksHair Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri review – groundbreakingThe Guardian - Charlie Brinkhurst-CuffIf you’re expecting cookie-cutter discourse on the nature of black people’s hair, look away now. Don’t Touch My Hair might take its title from one of the most well-known (if still frustratingly common)
Shanny Basaradded this to Shanny's watchingGame of Thrones Game of Thrones, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"lareviewofbooks.org - By Aaron Bady This week on Dear Television: Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle are back to discuss the second episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, “A Knight of …
Entertainment Weeklyadded this to Latest MoviesJ.R.R. Tolkien How J.R.R. Tolkien's wife, Edith, inspired the female characters of Middle-earthEntertainment Weekly - Christian HolubEveryone has a role to play in the struggle against evil, according to The Lord of the Rings. So while the battle lines of Middle-earth are filled with more men than women, female characters nevertheless
Nora Hanafiadded this to Good Reads Chill Out with These 8 Endearing Picture Books About PenguinsBrightly - by Charnaie Gordon Joe Moore once said, “It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.” I couldn’t agree more! Penguins are a favorite animal to read …
The Telegraphadded this to BooksSwitzerland The West should learn from what the world eats – but our bad habits are spreadingThe Telegraph - By Daisy DunnDaisy Dunn reviews The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson Pick any page at random in food writer Bee Wilson’s new book and you will find an arresting fact. Did you know that the Cavendish banana, the kind we
The New York Timesadded this to BooksThe Arts In Ian McEwan’s Latest, a Ménage à Trois — Software IncludedThe New York Times - By DWIGHT GARNERThe new Ian McEwan novel, “Machines Like Me,” about a ménage à trois between a man, a woman and a sexy male robot, is pretty good. It’s good enough that, were it published under a pseudonym, the world
Entertainment Weeklyadded this to TV AddictsTV What's making Brené Brown feel vulnerable right now, and other revelations from the bestselling authorEntertainment Weekly - Seija RankinWhen you turn on Netflix this week, you’ll see an entirely new kind of special. It’s not quite a documentary, it’s definitely not stand-up, but it’s somewhere in-between. Brené Brown’s The Call to Courage
archwizardadded this to The Good LifePoetry Poem of the week: Breath by Adrian RiceThe Guardian - Carol RumensBreath What is death, but a letting go of breath? One of the last things he did was to blow up the children’s balloons for the birthday party, joking and mock-cursing as he struggled to tie all those teats.
mthungeradded this to Court of LeavesFrancis Bacon The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane MandelbaumThe Paris Review - Cody DelistratyWhere is the line between genius and madness? The Belgian artist, poet, and art thief Stéphane Mandelbaum’s attempt to create a lasting mythology of himself led to a macabre, untimely death. To understand
The Telegraphadded this to All StoriesPlay button Jacqueline Wilson interview: 'We still have a strange way of putting girls and boys into different slots'The Telegraph - By Neil ArmstrongMany adults still think of Jacqueline Wilson as the queen of kids’ kitchen sink drama. She’s the bestselling author whose protagonists are children living in care or on tough council estates; whose heroines
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoUnesco World Book Day 2019: Here's the importance of books and readingpinkvilla.com - Navya Kharbanda The worldwide member states of the UNESCO observes this event each year to promote the power of books among people. Many schools and colleges …
GGewuyinadded this to MindFrackThe Arts In Ian McEwan's latest novel, a robot becomes an unexpected sexual competitordallasnews.com Half a century ago, Philip K. Dick asked, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and now Ian McEwan is sure those androids are pulling the wool over …
Vivian Narvaezadded this to READING MATTERSFriedrich Nietzsche Histories of Violence: The Tragedy of Existencelareviewofbooks.org - Brad Evans interviews Simon Critchley THIS IS THE 27th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Simon …
The Telegraphadded this to BooksJean-BaptisteAnimalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, review: a magisterial story of pig slaughter and family turmoil, all drenched in GasconThe Telegraph - By Cal Revely-CalderEarly in Animalia, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s fourth novel (and his first to appear in English), a baby girl named Eléonore refuses to take her mother’s milk. Husband, wife and baby live on a squalid farm
CNETadded this to Culture with a touch of TechCatalonia Mark World Book Day 2019 the Catalan way, with reading and red rosesCNET - Patricia Puentes Both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23. It's also the perfect day to celebrate literature and love.
The Poet's Pulpitadded this to The Poet's PulpitPoetry A Walk with FameThe Paris Review - Aysegul SavasOne winter in January, I stood with the Irish poet Paul Muldoon in front of a glass coffin, in the Mexican town of Tepoztlán. Inside, a figure lay under a purple cloth. “Is that a saint of some kind?”
The New York Timesadded this to BooksThe Arts Pico Iyer Reflects on a Quarter-Century of Life in JapanThe New York Times - By PHILLIP LOPATEAUTUMN LIGHT Season of Fire and Farewells By Pico Iyer The attraction of Anglo-American writers to Japan as the source of an alternate way of being is a long story, going back to the 19th century (Lafcadio
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesAsia Argento My life as JT LeRoy: Savannah Knoop on playing the great literary hoaxerThe Guardian - Hadley FreemanSavannah Knoop and I meet up at a hotel in London – on April Fools’ Day, a date so ludicrously apt I can’t resist commenting on its suitability. “Oh yeah,” they say, with a slightly strained grin. (Knoop
archwizardadded this to CinephileCelebrity News Prince memoir The Beautiful Ones coming this fallEntertainment Weekly - Christian HolubThe world hasn’t heard the last from Prince. The iconic musician died in 2016, but left behind lots of thoughts about his life and work. Prince: The Last Interview was published earlier this year, collecting
Nora Hanafiadded this to TravelAirbnb Celebrate World Book Day and plan a vacation around one of these book-filled AirbnbsUSA TODAY
The Poet's Pulpitadded this to The Poet's PulpitVladimir Nabokov To Montreux — and Forever More: On Visiting the Nabokovs’ Last Homelareviewofbooks.org - By Maxim D. Shrayer A SUNDAY TRAIN from Zurich hits the national stereotypes on the nose. The Swiss conductors are grumpy, the cars are dirty and stuffy, and the …
The New York Timesadded this to BooksPaisley Park Prince’s Unfinished Memoir Will Be Released After AllThe New York Times - By JOE COSCARELLI“The Beautiful Ones,” a memoir that Prince started not long before his death in 2016, will be released in October as a “newly envisioned” book featuring rare photographs and handwritten lyrics, the publisher
ByDaseinadded this to Non SequiturFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSamurai Do We Write for Others or Ourselves?kenyonreview.org Last year, I wrote a piece for this blog about Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Secret Miracle,” arguing that it was the ultimate consolation for …
The Paris Review Look, It’s Earth DayThe Paris ReviewHappy Earth Day! When the oceans have boiled over and the birds have died out, when the coasts have receded and the scorched vegetation ceased smoking, at least we’ll still have the work of the sixteenth-century
Entertainment Weeklyadded this to Book LoversProms Breakout queer Broadway musical The Prom to get YA novel adaptationEntertainment Weekly - David CanfieldThe Prom party just keeps on rolling. EW can exclusively announce that a YA novel based on this Broadway season’s hit new musical is in the works and set to publish this fall. The queer-themed story centers
James Lawsonadded this to Greater Israel 🇮🇱 & Diaspora Suicide Bombing The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern Age by Iain Overton – reviewThe Guardian - Peter BeaumontOverton not only asks the right questions but attempts to place the recent phenomenon in a wider context of suicide attacks I vividly recall the first suicide bombing I reported on for the Observer. It
Los Angeles Review of Booksadded this to LARB BlogMueller Report Weekly Read: April 22, 2019lareviewofbooks.org - By Steve Lichtman More links and thoughts below on Mueller’s more-lightly-redacted-and-more-damning-than-I-expected report. But first, a story that’s been lost in its …
The Paris ReviewSri Lanka Easter in Sri Lanka: Today Is Loss That Isn’t LossThe Paris Review - Vyshali ManivannanVyshali Manivannan has written extensively about the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, her parents’ home country. Having spread her father’s ashes a year ago to the day, Sunday’s bombings came as a
