Here’s how you can bid on Larry McMurtry’s personal books and other knick-knacks he owned. Read more
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The Essential Colette
The author, considered by some to be the greatest French writer of her time, played with words and convention. Here’s where to start with her work. Read more
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Gillian Anderson Asks Women to Send Her Their Sexual Fantasies
Anderson, who plays forthright sex therapist Jean Milburn in the blockbuster Netflix series “Sex Education,” has posted a video on Instagram and explained that she’s “launching a major exploration of women and sex.” Seated on a burgundy armchair, the 54-year-old actress appeared relaxed as she asked women to send her their “most personal desires” for a book she said she is “curating.” Read more
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Bullying Librarians Is for Know-Nothings
Right-wing activists have taken over school boards across the country, banning books on topics from slavery to the Holocaust, rejecting courses like AP African American Studies, and prohibiting teachers from discussing gender identity in the classroom. Now, in a comically transparent escalation of this anti-intellectual crusade, they are targeting libraries. Worse, they’ve embraced a characteristically cruel approach to doing so: bullying librarians. Read more
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The Moon Falls to Earth in a 1939 Novel That Remains Chillingly Relevant
‘The Hopkins Manuscript,’ newly reissued, recounts a global catastrophe through the sometimes humorous perspective of an ordinary Englishman. Read more
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Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong Win ALA’s 2023 Carnegie Medals
The American Library Association has announced that The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (Knopf) has won the American Library Association’s 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, while An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (Random House) took home the medal for nonfiction. Read more
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17 Small Press Gems from 2022 That You Might Have Missed
…here are 17 of the hundreds of amazing indie books published in 2022 that deserve a spot at the top of your book pile. Read more
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Is America Finally Ready for Ben Okri?
The acclaimed Nigerian British writer is resonating with American readers in a moment of national crisis. “Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices,” he said. Read more
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Meet the Archive Moles
There’s a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I’m one of them. Read more
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ChatGPT Listed as Author on Research Papers; Many Scientists Disapprove
At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers scramble to regulate its use. Read more
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