Not long after the novelist Kiran Desai published her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Booker prize in 2006, she began working on her third. The title, The Loneliness... Read more »
A Swiss theatre director known for re-enacting landmark trials has been told by a judge in Vienna that his publisher must withdraw a book in which he alleged that a far-right Austrian... Read more »
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According to Isaiah Berlin’s formulation, inspired by Archilochus’s aphorism that “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing,” one set of thinkers dig into a single topic all... Read more »
Once upon a time, there was a journalist with “a weakness for the literature of the supernatural, magic, ghost stories, mysteries.” So begins a short story by 20th-century Italian journalist and writer... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, Still need more fiction for your summer TBR? This issue will fix that. We cover Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere, bringing to life the early days of NASA’s Space Shuttle program,... Read more »
Former Beacon Press director Helene Atwan and a group of other industry members have formed Viva la Book Review, a new nonprofit organization which hopes to match book reviews—and reviewers—with local media... Read more »
Trump sues Penguin Random House, ‘New York Times’ for $15 billion Sep 16 2025 President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida accusing the New York Times and its reporters Susanne... Read more »
Ursula K Le Guin had her Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction; I have my comfy cardigan theory. What Le Guin proposed is that human culture, novels included, didn’t begin with technologies of harm,... Read more »