The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints’ graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet,... Read more »
In 2011, the psychologist (and Nobel laureate) Daniel Kahneman proposed that we humans are bimodal animals capable only of two modes of thought. One (which he called âSystem 1â) is fast, instinctive... Read more »
Slovakiaâs populist government has announced plans to drastically raise value-added tax (VAT) on books to help fix its public finances, drawing condemnation not only from booksellers and publishers but also far-right, pro-Russian... Read more »
Sally Rooneyâs breakout book, Normal People â more than 1m copies sold in the UK alone â proved her to be a peerless creator of flesh and blood characters with a keen... Read more »
The billions of pounds spent on housing asylum seekers is ripe for the kind of âscam and scandalâ that emerged in the contracts awarded during the Covid pandemic, the Observer has been... Read more »
BookBrowse Reviewers have written thousands of book reviews in the 20+ years we’ve been around, and we receive thousands of applications each year from would-be book reviewers. However the reviews in these... Read more »
Book News: Florida school district must return LGBTQ books to libraries after settlement
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Book News: Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist
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As book bans continue to surge across the country, there is heightened national concern about censorship and the limitations imposed on young people’s education and enrichment. At the same time, organizations, individuals,... Read more »