The Golden Age Volume 1
93. Superman: The Golden Age #1 Jerry Siegel. Joe Shuster. 2016. (Comics are from June 1938 through December 1939.) 392 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars] [comic books; graphic novel; superheroes;
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Bloomsbury Restructures Academic Division After R&L Integration
Bloomsbury Publishing has implemented a restructuring of its academic division, integrating teams from the recently acquired academic division at Rowman & Littlefield, which brought 116 new employees to the company
Winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prizes Announced
Posted on November 10, 2024 The winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prizes have been announced. The categories include Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. The winners were chosen from 9,957
Tell us: what have you been reading this month? | Books
As part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month. Have you read a book in recent weeks
Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life: Presented by Ryan Holiday
This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who’s reinvented himself over the past decade as a speaker for the dead: specifically Epictetus, Seneca, and above
The Sri Lankan Left in Power | Tisaranee Gunasekara
Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and pogroms. Yet the two-plus years leading to this past September’s
The Book of Witching – C.J. Cooke
Summary: Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote
Becky’s Book Reviews: 76. Dogtown
76. Dogtown (A Dogtown Book #1) Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko. 2023. [September] 352 pages. [Source: Library] [Animal fantasy; J Fiction; MG Fiction] [5 stars] First sentence: I know what
PW Talks with Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan
In The Sustainability Class (New Press, Dec.), climate policy analysts Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan lambast the “green” lifestyle as a consumerist distraction from global warming’s root cause: overconsumption by
2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Posted on October 3, 2024 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced by the National Book Foundation. There are twenty-five finalists contending in the five categories:
Odyssey by Stephen Fry audiobook review – one hell of a trip | Books
We are not short of modern retellings of the Greek myths: Natalie Haynes, Costanza Casati, Pat Barker and Madeline Miller are among those to have done it with style. But
The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002)
Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown are remembered as larger-than-life performers with an almost mythical-seeming presence and distinctiveness. But it wasn’t so very long ago that both of them were active
Gaza, Israel, and the American Left: October 7 One Year Later | Ben Rhodes
On the anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Ben Rhodes, Suzy Hansen, and Pankaj Mishra discussed the devastating violence of the year since, and America’s role in the
The Monk and Robot Duology (Including 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built,' #1 and 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy,' #2) – Becky Chambers
This is a review of the Monk and Robot duology, including A Psalm for the Wild-Built (#1) and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (#2). Reviews for the second book may contain spoilers for
78. When We Flew Away
78. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary. Alice Hoffman. 2024. 304 pages. [Source: Library] [mg historical fiction; mg fiction; world war II] [5 stars]
Changing the World, One Book at a Time
Following a day packed with celebrations inside and outside the Hilton Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, the Midwest Independent Booksellers and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Associations got down to business
Han Kang Wins The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024
Posted on October 10, 2024 Writer and poet Han Kang has been awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024.
The Swedish Academy says she was awarded the Nobel
Lore Segal, Austrian-American author, dies aged 96 | Books
Lore Segal, the Austrian-American writer of autobiographical novels and short stories drawing on her experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna for England as a Jewish refugee and later settling in the US,
David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip
Take a sufficiently long road trip across America, and you’re bound to encounter something or someone Lynchian. Whether or not that idea lay behind Interview Project, the undertaking had the
Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s Afro-Arab Jazz | Nate Wooley
The jazz bassist and composer Ahmed Abdul-Malik was born Jonathan Tim Jr. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1927. Throughout his life Tim claimed Sudanese descent, but according to the historian Robin
How Do You Live – Genzaburo Yoshino
Summary: After the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Copper must confront inevitable and enormous change, including the aftermath of his own betrayal of his best friend. Between episodes of
Becky’s Book Reviews: September Reflections
In September, I read thirty-four books! I also rediscovered the joy in reading. I took the advice of friends and chose to reread some favorites to help get me going
