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• Book Review: ‘Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford,’ by Carla Kaplan
• Richard Lamparski, 93, Dies; Wrote ‘Whatever Became Of …?’ Books
• Terry Martin Hekker, a Happy Housewife Scorned, Dies at 92
• John Green Doesn’t Want You to Lose the Magic of Your Teenage Self
• Book Review: ‘The Dream Factory,’ by Daniel Swift
• Book Review: ‘The Butterfly Thief,’ by Walter Marsh
• Welcome to Literary Award Season
• David Bellos, 80, Dies; Wrestled French Wordplay Into English
• How Joan Didion Did Thanksgiving
• Stephen Anderson, Linguist Who Refuted Doctor Dolittle, Dies at 82

• Ann Packer Is OK If You Have Problems With Her New Novel
• Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
• Novels for Kids Who Love Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Series
• Top National Book Awards Go to Writing About the Middle East
• Superman Comic Sets Auction Record, Selling for $9.12 Million
• Books Our Editors Love This Week
• How to Make That Restaurant Dessert at Home? Ask David Lebovitz.
• Sizzling New Romance Books
• George Packer on His Favorite Books and His New Novel, ‘The Emergency’
• ‘This World of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Hanks Is Back in Town
• Book Review: ‘Mexico,’ by Paul Gillingham
• These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified
• Solvej Balle Took 30 Years to Write ‘On the Calculation of Volume.’ It’s a Sensation.
• Broadway’s Radical ‘Oedipus,’ With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville
• Dazzling New Historical Fiction Books
• Book Review: ‘The Breath of the Gods,’ by Simon Winchester
• The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
• New to Cyberpunk Books? Here’s Where to Start.
• Book Review: ‘A Certain Lucas,’ by Julio Cortázar
• Sex Had Become a Chore. Then They Started Reading Romantasy.
• Book Review: ‘Baby Driver,’ by Jan Kerouac
• Book Review: ‘Lovers and Haters,’ by Gilbert Hernandez
• The Best Romance Novels of 2024 (So Far)
• What Book Should You Read Next?
• Martin Amis: An Appreciation
• In ‘Fires in the Dark,’ Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
• Book Review: ‘NB by J.C.,’ by James Campbell
• Book Review: ‘Dom Casmurro,’ by Machado de Assis
• The Detective Novel ‘Whose Body?,’ by Dorothy L. Sayers, Turns 100
• Book Review: ‘The Late Americans,’ by Brandon Taylor
• Martin Amis’s Best Books: A Guide

• Inkluded Faces Up to Publishing’s Diversity Problem
• The Black List Teams with Blackstone on Manuscript Initiative
• Catapult Acquires Hawthorne Books
• Life Imitating Art: PW Talks with Tim Weil
• Book Deals: Week of November 24, 2025
• How ‘Television’ by Lauren Rothery Got Made
• Blurring the Lines: PW Talks with Stephen Motika
• Mysteries & Thrillers in Translation
• N.Y.C. Presses Come Together for the ‘Labor of Poetry’
• New Crime Fiction from Belgium, France, and Quebec

• Translated Authors Branch Out with Crime Fiction
• Indie Spotlight: November 21, 2025
• University of Texas Press Celebrates 75 Years
• Amor Towles on Seicho Matsumoto
• Julian Barnes’s Mortal Dilemma
• This Week’s Bestsellers: November 24, 2025
• 7 New Books to Read This Native American Heritage Month
• A Rom-Com in Middle-earth: PW Talks with Jessie Sylva
• A Look at the 2025 National Book Award Winners
• Lighthouse Brings ‘Tyrant’ Back in Deluxe Edition
• Reading Is Entertainment: PW Talks with Lissette Mendez
• OverDrive Sues OpenAI Over Sora App
• Daniel Nayeri Wins 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
• New Kids’ and YA Books: Week of November 24, 2025
• Noteworthy Picture Book and Novel Sequels: November 2025
• In Brief: November 20, 2025
• Children’s Book Creators for Conservation 2025 Trip: A Photo Essay
• 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature in Photos
• Advent Devotionals Bring Spirit, Story, and Song
• Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards
• Six Comics that Keep Westerns Weird
• Religion Book Deals: Nov. 19, 2025
• Spotify Adds Audiobooks in Four More Countries
• Bertelsmann Post Small Sales Gain Through September
• Souvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2025 Giller Prize
• Rights Report: Week of November 17, 2025
• Publishing in Color Stays the Course
• Native American Heritage Month 2025: Q&As with Authors for Young Readers on Showcasing Indigenous Culture and Community
• Just Announced: 'The After-School Kindness Crew' by Goldie Hawn and Lin Oliver
• Just Announced: 'Heroes of 1776' by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch
• ‘Endless Possibility’: National Book Award Finalists Take the Stage at 2025 Teens Read Event
• Obituary: Jeanette Winter
• For InterVarsity Press, Publishing Diverse Voices Is ‘A Calling’
• Shanghai Children’s Book Fair Examines a Changing Market
• PRH Christian to Launch Reader-Facing Content Hub
• Stable Distribution Adds McSweeney’s and Four Others
• Beyond the Book: Lauren Sánchez Bezos's 'The Fly Who Flew Under the Sea'
• Anthropic Judge Slams Efforts to Have Authors Opt Out of Settlement
• Book Deals: Week of November 17, 2025
• Shein Expands into Bookselling with Alibris Partnership
• How ‘We Inherit the Fire’ by Kagiso Lesego Molope Got Made
• Turning Heaven Upside Down: PW talks with N.T. Wright
• The House That Bennett Cerf Built: PW Talks with Gayle Feldman
• Texas Strong: PW Talks with Robert Devens
• PW Studio: Higher Learning 2025
• A Story Is Never Finished: PW Talks with Lauren Groff
• Lectorum Publications to Shutter
• Bookstores on a Mission
• Indie Publishers Support Marginalized Authors
• Sending Books to Prisons
• This Week’s Bestsellers: November 17, 2025
• Clay Cane Burns It All Down
• The On-Sale Calendar: March 2026 Children’s Books
• The On-Sale Calendar: April 2026 Children’s Books
• The On-Sale Calendar: April 2026
• Bertelsmann Keeps It in the Family
• First Book Marks 25-Year Partnership with PRH, Sets 2030 Goal
• OUP Plans 113 U.K. Layoffs
• Webtoon Posts $11 Million Q3 Loss
• New Kids’ and YA Books: Week of November 17, 2025
• In Brief: November 13, 2025
• Thanksgiving Books for Young Readers 2025
• The On-Sale Calendar: March 2026
• The On-Sale Calendar: February 2026 Children’s Books
• Jason Reynolds’s Audiobook ‘Soundtrack’ Set for Print Release
• In Conversation: Adam Wallace and Cynthia Platt
• The On-Sale Calendar: January 2026
• The On-Sale Calendar: January 2026 Children’s Books
• The On-Sale Calendar: February 2026
• Globe Pequot Adds Another Publisher
• African Publishers Battle ‘Wakanda Problem’ as Market Grows
• David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’
• RHCB Buys Cherry Lake
• Rights Report: Week of November 10, 2025
• New and Forthcoming Academic Religion Books
• Jeff Kinney’s ‘Partypooper’ Tour in Photos
• Community Building in Boston’s Kid Lit World
• Panel Mania: 'Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me' by Mimi Pond
• Four Questions for Bianna Golodryga and Yonit Levi
• Another Top S&S Exec to Depart
• ECPA Names Christy Award Winners
• Book Club Picks for November 2025
• Beach Reads: PW Talks with Chad Leonard
• The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember (shelftalker)
• The Final ShelfTalker: An Interview with the Year 2024 (shelftalker)
• Forever Shelf Talking (shelftalker)
• The 2023 Stocking Stuffer of the Year Award! (shelftalker)
• Pajama Night 2023 (shelftalker)
• A Harrowing Coming of Age (shelftalker)
• An Interview with Autumn (shelftalker)
• On the Power of ‘Accountable’ (shelftalker)
• On AI, Textual Integrity, and Bookselling (shelftalker)
• Which Picture Books Are Selling This Season? (shelftalker)

NPR Topics: Books

• Books We Love: These were NPR staffers' favorite plot-driven books of 2025
• Gather 'round the table — it's time for a 'Family Feast!'
• 'Nightmare Obscura' author explains how to take control of your dreams
• Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards
• New poetry stresses that our stories are more precious and urgent than ever
• This week in books: Get stuck in a Nov. 18 time loop, and explore the world in 70 maps
• 'What you see is really me,' says 'Wicked' star Cynthia Erivo
• Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day
• 'Strega Nona' is still reaching audiences at 50 years old
• 'What to Eat Now' nutritionist talks SNAP, food policy and the 'triple duty' diet

NPR Topics: Author Interviews

• Gather 'round the table — it's time for a 'Family Feast!'
• Rabih Alameddine talks about his novel,'The True True Story of Raja the Gullible'
• Adam Cohen explores his book about an 1884 shipwreck
• 'Nightmare Obscura' author explains how to take control of your dreams
• 'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
• 'What you see is really me,' says 'Wicked' star Cynthia Erivo
• Former Meta exec Nick Clegg talks about his new book, 'How to Save the Internet'
• 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' is Patrick Horvath's gruesome graphic novel
• Indian writer Amitav Ghosh talks about his recent collection of published essays
• Dan Aykroyd and daughter Stella Aykroyd on 'Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake'

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• Jesmyn Ward, James McBride among authors nominated at 10th annual Kirkus Prizes
• Feeling sad, lonely? Making friends as an adult is hard. Your front porch can help.
• Voice of the Bills, John Murphy, who suffered a stroke last season, opens up in new book
• Epilogue Books serves up chapters, churros and coffee in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Richard E. Grant discusses 'A Pocketful of Happiness' with USA TODAY's Book Club: Watch for free
• Melissa Joan Hart was almost fired from 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' after racy Maxim cover
• 'Divine Rivals' is a BookTok hit: What to read next, including 'Lovely War'
• 'Star Wars' exclusive: Read a Boba Fett excerpt from new 'Return of the Jedi' collection
• Book bans: In 3 years, 60 texts have been challenged in Iowa schools. A new law could ban more.
• Why we love Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Ariz. (and why they love 'Divine Rivals')

• 'Old Enough' is the 'Big Bisexual Book' of the summer. Here's why bi representation matters.
• Dear Bookseller: Why 'The Secret Keepers' is the best book for precocious kids
• Intersex surgery stole their joy. Now they're trying to get it back.
• Why we love P&T Knitwear, the bookstore that keeps New York's Lower East Side well read
• Jay-Z-themed library cards drive 'surge' in Brooklyn Library visitors, members: How to get one
• Amid controversy, Michael Oher of 'The Blind Side' fame attends book signing in Mississippi
• Billy Dee Williams' new memoir is nearly here—preorder your copy today
• Billy Porter reignites criticism of Harry Styles' Vogue cover: 'It doesn't feel good to me'
• Ziwe's book 'Black Friend: Essays' is coming this fall—here's how to preorder it
• False claim Ghislaine Maxwell's father owns textbook firm; he died in 1991 | Fact check
• 'Nobody Needs to Know' by Pidgeon Pagonis, August Wilson biography: 5 new must-read books
• 'Henry Hamlet's Heart' and more LGBTQ books to read if you loved 'Heartstopper'
• How to watch 'The Changeling' on Apple TV+
• OnPolitics: Parents clash with school district over LGBTQ books
• Why parents are clashing with schools over 'Pride Puppy' and other LGBTQ+ books
• 'Ludicrous': John Green reacts after Indiana library removes 'The Fault in Our Stars' from young adult shelf
• 'Killers of a Certain Age' and more great books starring women over 40
• It's Book Lovers Day 2023! Celebrate the joy of reading with top products for bookworms

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• Pilot announces new WACOM styluses for 2026
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• First Look and Review of the Nartick E INK Calendar
• Now is a good time to buy an Amazon Kindle
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• New Kobo Software Update Has Support For Kobo Remote
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• First Look at the Pocketbook Fashion Case by Karl Lagerfeld
• Kobo Plus is running a Black Friday promotion

• Freewrite Wordrunner is shipping out in January
• Onyx Boox Note Air 5C Review – A Solid E-Notebook
• Audible integrates Goodreads’ Want to Read Shelf
• Amazon introduces Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation tool
• Spotify is launching Recaps for digital audiobooks
• Audible is running a 2 for 1 audiobook sale
• Open Book Touch is a bad e-reader on Crowd Supply

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• Book Review: ‘Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford,’ by Carla Kaplan
• Book Review: ‘The Dream Factory,’ by Daniel Swift
• Book Review: ‘The Butterfly Thief,’ by Walter Marsh
• Ann Packer Is OK If You Have Problems With Her New Novel
• Novels for Kids Who Love Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Series
• Top National Book Awards Go to Writing About the Middle East
• Book Review: ‘Mexico,’ by Paul Gillingham
• Book Review: ‘The Breath of the Gods,’ by Simon Winchester
• Book Review: ‘A Certain Lucas,’ by Julio Cortázar

Salon.com > books

• Cynthia Erivo’s memoir confronts family estrangement, identity and the costs of fame
• Patti Smith opens the final door of her life story
• One writer’s plan to rescue baseball from itself
• Paul McCartney’s Wings spread again with new book and anthology
• Tim Curry’s demons made his villains unforgettable
• Britney Spears says father of kids’ tell-all memoir trades “white lies” for cash
• Horror has always been about us
• Ozzy Osbourne wasn’t ready to go, but he was ready to die
• Kamala Harris’ memoir revisits Biden tensions, 2024 regrets
• 10 fall biographies you won’t want to miss

• The “sexy selfie” rebellion: Reclaiming what slut-shaming tried to take
• Gwyneth Paltrow was always going to be a villain
• Colonel Tom Parker wasn’t the villain of Elvis’ story
• A literary tribute to Sinéad O’Connor takes her legacy off the back burner
• National park gift shops move to ban “corrosive” history books
• Your favorite band’s favorite band gets its due
• Even Uma Thurman feels the pull of the romantasy boom
• Michael Douglas’ roles foresaw the man crisis
• Israeli insiders on Iran war and building a “different Middle East”
• From “Rumours” to “Appetite for Destruction”: Inside the Record Plant’s legacy
• The best of 2025 . . . so far
• Book bans are getting weirder, targeting cats, dogs and civic-minded grandmas
• Alison Bechdel faces her sellout fears
• The Band’s secret weapon, Richard Manuel, finally gets his due
• “Notes to John” gives Joan Didion a worthy opponent: herself
• Deliberative democracy: Sounds boring — but it just might save us
• “An unwarranted betrayal”: Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democratic Party, announces new book
• Reading list for a year of chaos: These books make 2024 make sense (kind of)
• Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic”: Putting an end to the debate over whether it is or isn’t
• Trisha Yearwood on family recipes and the power of love

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