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April 18 2022, 11:34 pm
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Kharkiv’s Cultural Life Defies Constant Russian Bombardment with First Book Presentation during War
Ukraine’s indomitable spirit was on full display over the weekend in Kharkiv, the nation’s second largest city, when the publication of a new book was …
Mark Raczkiewycz
Nov. 6 2021, 5:09 pm
New York Times: 13 new books we recommend this week
Our recommended books this week touch on everything from science and nature (in Mary Roach’s “Fuzz,” that means the collision of humans and other …
New York Times
Nov. 5 2021, 9:39 am
New York Times: What does war feel like to a child? (Book Review)
When children encounter war it is not as the thing that Carl von Clausewitz called politics “by other means.” It is to their terrified eyes an …
New York Times
Nov. 4 2021, 2:59 pm
OpenDemocracy: Ukraine 1917 (Book Review)
A groundbreaking new book by historian Marko Bojcun explores a whirlwind year in the life of Ukraine. Read more here.
OpenDemocracy
Oct. 28 2021, 3:14 pm
New York Times: 16 new books coming in November
Memoirs from Ai Weiwei, Huma Abedin and Will Smith; new fiction from Gary Shteyngart and Neal Stephenson; and plenty more. Read more here.
New York Times
Oct. 28 2021, 1:42 pm
Reuters: France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
PARIS – Sophie Fornairon’s independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, …
Reuters
Oct. 28 2021, 12:16 pm
New York Times: The inexorable rise of Angela Merkel (Book Review)
In 1852, Richard Wagner sent a lengthy letter to Franz Liszt about the sorceress Ortrud in his opera “Lohengrin.” He declared that she never …
New York Times
Oct. 27 2021, 2:24 pm
OpenDemocracy: A personal reflection on loss and war in Donbas
The war in Ukraine’s Donbas is now in its seventh year. Fourteen thousand people have been killed. Two million people have been displaced. And with …
OpenDemocracy
Oct. 22 2021, 12:52 pm
The Guardian: Top 10 true crime novels
Adding an intense layer of meaning to well-known facts, authors including Truman Capote, Kate Summerscale and Gordon Burn raise this genre far above …
The Guardian
Oct. 19 2021, 11:49 am
EuroMaidan Press: Ukrainian writer wins Angelus Central European Literature Award
Ukrainian writer Kateryna Babkina won the Angelus Central European Literature Award, presented annually in Wroclaw, Poland. She became the fourth …
EuroMaidan Press
Oct. 7 2021, 2:40 pm
BBC: Tanzanian novelist wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Read more here.
BBC
Sept. 26 2021, 5:52 pm
New York Times: 8 new books we recommend this week
In publishing, the onset of autumn often means a change of mind-set, away from the frothy beach books of summer and toward weightier quote-unquote …
New York Times
Sept. 19 2021, 11:22 am
New York Times: 9 new books we recommend this week
If you’re looking for escapist reading, this week’s recommended books won’t help. But if you want a cleareyed and sometimes rousing look at the state …
New York Times
Sept. 16 2021, 9:32 pm
New York Times: 20 new works of fiction to read this season
Here’s a third smart, sexy novel from Rooney, who received widespread acclaim for her first two, “Conversations With Friends” and “Normal People.” …
New York Times
Sept. 12 2021, 5:43 pm
New York Times: Joseph Brodsky slept here
After a decades-long standoff with the last resident of a communal apartment, a private museum has finally opened in Brodsky’s shared home in St. …
New York Times
Sept. 12 2021, 3:57 pm
The Guardian: Top 10 books about long-distance relationships
The pleasures and perils of sustaining human connection while physically separated have inspired writers from Sally Rooney to Vladimir Nabokov. Read …
The Guardian
Sept. 12 2021, 3:00 pm
New York Times: 12 new books we recommend this week
War and its aftermath figure prominently in our recommended titles this week, from Andrew Bacevich’s critique of American foreign policy (“After the …
New York Times
Sept. 5 2021, 6:14 pm
The Guardian: The 50 biggest books of autumn 2021
From new novels by Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead to Michel Barnier’s take on Brexit, Bernardine Evaristo’s manifesto and diaries from David …
The Guardian
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