Want to read and laugh? From NPR’s yearly reading list, Books We Love, four NPR staffers offer their suggestions. Read more
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Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list.
The countdown to Christmas has begun, but as shopping desperation sets in, remember that books make the best gifts — and they’re easy to wrap and send! Here are some to consider. Read more
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Black authors on New York Times top 10 book list draw backlash
While The New York Times Books Review‘s annual Ten Best Books list has long [been] considered the gold standard of literary criticism, not nearly enough attention has been given to black authors on the list. This year’s list corrects that issue, but still drew a critical response from people who believe the list was “too woke” for their tastes. Read more
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101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century
“As voted upon by the members of the Writers Guilds West and East, the list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (so far) is both a celebration of the great writers and screenplays of the last 21 years and a study of how writing for the screen has evolved and diversified since the 20th Century.” Read more
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Unbound reprints 70,000 copies of TikTok hit Cain’s Jawbone
Authored by the Observer’s first cryptic crossword setter, Cain’s Jawbone was first published by Gollancz in 1934, under the pen name Torquemada. It was written with the 100 pages deliberately out of order, inviting readers to solve the murder mystery by re-ordering them. Only three people are thought to have solved the puzzle, including British comedy writer John Finnemore, who received £1,000 from the press after it reissued the book in 2019 and launched a competition. Read more
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Alice Sebold Apologizes to Man Wrongly Convicted of Raping Her
Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after the author identified him as her attacker in an assault she described in her memoir, “Lucky.” Its publisher said Tuesday that it would stop distributing the book. Read more
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Top 10 novels about novelists
Writers writing about writers: the fact that there’s a lot of it about should perhaps come as no surprise. From the likes of Jack Torrance in The Shining to Paul Morris in Sabine Durrant’s Lie With Me, writers in fiction are often skewered: preening, blocked, dejected creatures who’ll receive their comeuppance – or salvation – one way or another. Read more
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Who Owns a Recipe? A Plagiarism Claim Has Cookbook Authors Asking
U.S. copyright law protects all kinds of creative material, but recipe creators are mostly powerless in an age and a business that are all about sharing. Read more
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Playwright Is in Exile as Cuba Uses an Old Playbook to Quash Dissent
Yunior García, a rising star of the Cuban protest movement, fled to Spain. He is one of a young generation of artists who say they have chosen exile over imprisonment. Read more
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Einstein manuscript with relativity calculations sold for more than $13M at Paris auction
A rare manuscript featuring early calculations that led to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity sold for just over $13 million at an auction in Paris Tuesday, becoming the most expensive manuscript by the famed scientist. Read more
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