Entertainment Weekly: Book Coverage

• Review: 'The One Hundred Nights of Hero': EW Review

  

  What starts off as an homage to Scheherazade and her 1001 nights of storytelling quickly turns takes on a life (and story) of its own in Isabel Greenberg’s The One Hundred Nights of Hero. For her second graphic novel, the Eisner Awar…
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• Review: 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' script: EW Review

  

  A published screenplay is a different beast – though one no less fantastical – than full-length novel. Instead of inspiring readers’ imaginations about the worlds they’re meant to be depicting, a pu…
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• Review: 'Beyond the Truth' by Anne Holt: EW Review

  

  When you think of Scandinavian noir, names like Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Camilla Läckberg probably come to mind, not Anne Holt. That may be about to change. Holt—dubbed “the godmother of modern Norwegian crime…
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• Review: 'Talking as Fast as I Can' by Lauren Graham: EW Review

  

  Through a handful of essays, Graham shares stories from her early days as a struggling actress as well as behind-the-scenes tidbits from her seven seasons (and now the Nov. 25 Netflix revival) as beloved, quick-witted Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls…
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• Review: 'The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History': EW review

  

  Jon Stewart left the Daily Show 15 months ago and the country hasn’t been the same since. Perhaps not since the golden age of Johnny Carson had one man so ruled the nexus of entertainment and current events, and Stewart’s re…
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• Review: 'The Princess Diarist' by Carrie Fisher: EW Review

  

  Star Wars fans are likely to have as curious and strained a relationship with Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist as the actress has with the films: a hope for something deeper, disappointment in its glibness, and ultimately a respect a…
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• Review: 'Pretend I'm Your Friend' by MB Caschetta: EW Review

  

  At first the stories in MB Caschetta’s linked collection (following her first novel, Miracle Girls, which came out in 2014) seem like loosely plotted vignettes, windows peering into characters’ lives for a brief moment befor…
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• Review: 'Moonglow' by Michael Chabon: EW Review

  

  Love and war, sex and madness, long-buried secrets and rockets to the moon: Hardly a shade of human intrigue—or a pivotal moment in 20th-century history—goes unexplored in Chabon’s vibrant, sprawling latest. Ins…
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• Review: 'The Fate of the Tearling' by Erika Johansen: EW Review

  

  In the final book of Erika Johansen’s excellent Tearling trilogy, Queen Kelsea Glynn is struggling to save her besieged kingdom from a physical foe, the Red Queen, as well as from a strange supernatural force that has begun gaining…
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• Review: 'Settle for More' by Megyn Kelly: EW Review

  

  Let’s get it out of the way at the very beginning: The Roger Ailes stories in lawyer–turned–Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s book are every bit as lurid and appalling as you might imagine, with the forme…
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Financial Times: Books

• newXX — a ‘novel, graphic’ with big ideas, extra bold
  Rian Hughes’s book delights in exploring design’s potential to amplify meaning
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• War crimes and their half-punishments
  Journalistic pursuits of wartime abusers by Linda Melvern and the damage of unreconciled atrocities by Christina Lamb
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• The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante — truth about adolescence
  The Italian novelist brilliantly depicts the inner life of a teen on the cusp of womanhood
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• Rewilding by Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe — radical rewards
  From grazing in the Arctic to creating an ‘ecospace’, the wild ideas behind this new book are worth considering
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• Innovation and the real game changers
  Three books offer different answers to why innovation is so maddeningly difficult to achieve
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• Chilling truths, told by children, in Andrés Barba’s dark novel
  A Latin American city is beset by a band of feral kids in the unsettling A Luminous Republic
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• Bunker by Bradley Garrett — a look at the world of preppers
  How fears of disaster have created a multi-billion-dollar doom industry
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• China: The Bubble That Never Pops, by Thomas Orlik
  Beijing is neither about to collapse nor take over the world
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• Seven Years of Darkness — an admirably tough fable
  South Korean sensation You-Jeong Jeong’s new ‘whydunit’ is about the search for the truth
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• Mary Trump: ‘At least the Borgias supported the arts’
  The president’s niece on fear and greed in the Trump family — and why she wrote her explosive tell-all memoir
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Huffington Post: US Books Blog

• newMichael Cohen Vows Trump 'Golden Showers' Revelation In New Book Excerpt
  “I know where the skeletons are buried,” he writes, “because I was the one who buried them.”
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• newBob Woodward’s New Book Lifts The Lid On Trump’s Personal Letters With Kim Jong Un
  North Korea's dictator reportedly described his bond with Trump as something out of a “fantasy film," the famed Watergate journalist will reveal in "Rage."
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• newMourning The Ellen DeGeneres And J.K. Rowling We Used To Know
  Two of the world's most beloved celebrities are facing reckonings that call into question the validity of their public personas.
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• 7 Sweet Things We Learned About Meghan Markle And Prince Harry's Love In New Book
  Who knew that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were so great at giving gifts?
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• 20 Children's Books That Celebrate Teachers
  These books pay tribute to the powerful role educators play in kids' lives.
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• Bestselling Author: White House Press Should Try This Next Time Trump Lies
  Don Winslow wants reporters to take a tougher stance with the president.
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• Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Kept This Part Of Their Love Story A 'Mystery,' New Book Says
  "Finding Freedom," a book about the royal couple, still leaves out this very important detail.
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• Ex-FBI Agent Peter Strzok Set To Release Book About Trump, Russia
  Strzok played a pivotal role in the Russia investigation and became a regular target of Trump's tweets.
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• Mary Trump Says 'Utterly Incapable' President Should Resign In Scorched-Earth Interview
  Donald Trump's niece published a tell-all book this week after his family failed to block its release.
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• Judge Denies Trump Family's Attempt To Block Niece From Promoting Tell-All Book
  The ruling will allow Mary Trump to publicize her book about the president when it hits stores on Tuesday.
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L.A. Times: Books

• newIs the literary trend toward passive women progress? Maybe we’ve been misreading
  Novelist Lynn Steger Strong on the revolutionary passivity of Rachel Cusk, Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney — how we've misread them and what comes next.
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• newReview: A rebel slave died a hero and was forgotten; a dramatic history revives his legend
  Drawing on testimonies from rebels, Marjoleine Kars' riveting "Blood on the River" recounts an 18th century revolt in Guyana that almost succeeded.
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• newReview: 'Becoming Los Angeles' nails the city in ways big and small, as only D.J. Waldie can
  Waldie, whose paean to his native Lakewood, "Holy Land," was a 1990s classic of Los Angeles writing, pulls it off again, though a little more darkly.
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• How Ali Smith wrote a fast, newsy, transcendent book series during the darkest of timelines
  The author discusses her quartet of novels, written fast on the heels of Brexit, Trump and the ensuing horrors and concluding with "Summer."
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• Her mom inspired her book on race and identity. Then came the Hollywood bidding war
  'Vanishing Half' author Brit Bennett talks about the inspiration behind her bestselling novel.
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• Bestsellers List Sun., Aug. 16, 2020
  Bestsellers List Sun., Aug. 16, 2020
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• Review: The mesmerizing mystery of ‘The Death of Vivek Oji’: Not how he died but how he lived
  Akwaeke Emezi's new novel pieces together the short life of a young Nigerian man, exploring gender fluidity, Igbo belief and what makes a family.
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• Review: The man who may have loved Lucy: A novelist imagines a love affair for Lucille Ball
  In "The Queen of Tuesday," author Darin Strauss plays out a plausible tryst between the star and his grandfather, and brings out her protofeminist side.
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• L.A. Times Festival of Books going virtual as community-wide gathering
  After postponing from April, the 25th Festival of Books, Stories & Ideas will be held as a four-week virtual event starting Oct. 18 and span four weeks.
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• She witnessed L.A.'s 1992 unrest from the suburbs. ‘The Black Kids’ reflects what she saw
  Christina Hammonds Reed was only 8 when L.A. erupted and slowly awakened to Black disadvantage. So does the narrator of her debut YA novel.
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London Evening Standard: Books

npr: Books

• Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other

  

  Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are frequently seen as opposing forces in the struggle for civil rights but Peniel Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield, says the truth is more nuanced.
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• In 'Blood On The River,' The Berbice Rebellion Foreshadows Later Insurgencies

  

  Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.
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• Fifty Years After Studs Terkel Published 'Hard Times' ... Here We Are Again

  

  Studs Terkel's bestselling oral history of the Great Depression came out in 1970. Who could've guessed it would feel so relevant half a century later?
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• Veteran GOP Strategist Takes On Trump — And His Party — In 'It Was All A Lie'

  

  Political consultant Stuart Stevens says the Republican Party's support for Trump reflects the abandonment of principles it claimed to embrace, such as fiscal restraint and personal responsibility.
  - 3 days ago, 11 Aug 20, 1:03pm -
• Former Rep. Katie Hill Aims To Encourage Women To Run For Office In 'She Will Rise'

  

  Hill's election to Congress in 2018 seemed like a sign of progress. A year later, she resigned after admitting to an affair with a young staffer, documented by her husband, and leaked to the press.
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• Sarah Chayes' New Book Examines 'Corruption In America'

  

  Author Sarah Chayes has investigated corruption in places like Afghanistan and Nigeria. She wondered if the U.S. was corrupt. NPR's Noel King talks to her about her book: "On Corruption in America."
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• Molly Wizenberg Shares Her Story Of Changing Identity In New Book, 'The Fixed Stars'

  

  NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Molly Wizenberg about her new memoir, The Fixed Stars.
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• 'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans

  

  Isabel Wilkerson's second book is a masterwork of writing — a profound achievement of scholarship and research that stands also as a triumph of both visceral storytelling and cogent analysis.
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• Royal Reporters Chart Harry And Meghan's Journey In 'Finding Freedom'

  

  Royal beat reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have written a sympathetic new book on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family.
  - 5 days ago, 9 Aug 20, 7:55am -
• 'The First Sister' Is Stylish, Substantial — And Very Cool — Space Opera

  

  Linden A. Lewis's debut novel — first in a trilogy — mixes swashbuckling, social commentary and compelling queer characters in its tale of three warring factions in a spacefaring society.
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PopMatters: Read

• newGreta Gerwig's Adaptation of Loneliness in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'

  

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• newThe Band's Discontented Third LP, 1970's 'Stage Fright', Represented a World Braving Calamity

  

  Work CitedBurks, John. "Stage Fright". Rolling Stone, September 17, 1970.Morse, Steve. "The Band Still Feels Shock of Manuel Death". The Day, March 25, 1986.Keep Reading
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• newNatalie Schlabs Starts Living the Lifetime Dream With "That Early Love" (premiere + interview)

  

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• newRufus Wainwright Makes a Welcome Return to Pop with 'Unfollow the Rules'

  

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• newJazz's Denny Zeitlin and Trio Get Adventurous on 'Live at Mezzrow'

  

  If there is a revelation on Live at Mezzrow it may simply be in the durability of the players of this generation, a group that came of age after the bebop revolution of the 1940s and had formed habits before free improvising had become common by the…
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• newThe Inescapable Violence in Netflix's I'm No Longer Here (Ya no estoy aqui)

  

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• newArlo McKinley's Confessional Country/Folk Is Superb on 'Die Midwestern'

  

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• newViserra Combine Guitar Heroics and Female Vocals on 'Siren Star'

  

  There are also bits scattered throughout the record that sound like obvious spots for a producer to step in and work with the group. There's a section on "Light Years" where the band slows down for about 20 seconds and then goes right back to the mai…
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• newSongwriter Shelly Peiken Revisits "Bitch" for '2.0' Album (premiere)

  

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• newRyan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts Honor Their Favorite Songs With "Oh No" (premiere)

  

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The A.V. Club: AVBooks

• newBless his heart, Jason Derulo thought Cats was "gonna change the world"

  

  Say what you like about 2019's Cats; it’s definitely an expression of something—possibly of how horny Cat Dame Judi Dench gets when Cat Ian McKellan laps up a big ol’ saucer of milk. Or whatever the fuck’s going on when Cat Dame Judi Dench st…
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• newEdward Norton made his directorial debut by walking a priest, a rabbi, and a Dharma into a Y2K rom-com

  

  It only took three years for Edward Norton to solidify his entire Hollywood persona. After his explosive debut in Primal Fear, his transformative turn in American History X, and his era-defining work in Fight Club, he was hailed as the greatest actor…
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• newMeet Ted Lasso and some Teenage Bounty Hunters

  

  Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, August 14, and Saturday, August 15.Read more...
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• newThe original Crazy Taxi is a lost time capsule of the year 2000

  

  Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Pl…
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• newSufjan Stevens teams up with "Renegade" dancer Jalaiah Harmon for "Video Game"

  

  We don’t normally think of Sufjan Stevens as being a musician especially interested in modern trends; even the songs he’s been releasing off his upcoming album, The Ascension, have felt like classic Stevens’ tracks, albeit in an even-more-downb…
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• newDolly Parton on #BlackLivesMatter: "Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!"

  

  Dolly Parton was typically Dolly Parton-ish—which is to say, both empathetic and excellent—today, when she responded to questions in a Billboard interview about the #BlackLivesMatter movement in about as straightforward way as anybody could want.…
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• newForgettability is the superpower of Netflix's new Jamie Foxx vehicle Project Power

  

  The bone-headed, faux-street smart posturing of David Ayer’s Bright is just one of the elements thrown into the overcooked stew that is Netflix’s Project Power, a superhero movie that’s also an anti-drug fable and a father-daughter story mixed…
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• newOh, nice, The Other Two and South Side are both moving over to HBO Max

  

  In addition to being a serviceable storage space for all those old HBO shows you’ve always been meaning to get to, HBO Max has also swiftly revealed itself as an important, “Oh, hey, put that over there” element of the wider popu culture ecosys…
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• newBjörk crooned her way to victory at the greatest Cannes Film Festival of all time

  

  Forty whole minutes pass before Dancer In The Dark asserts its aspirations to the grand MGM musical tradition. Up until that point, Lars von Trier’s prizewinning melodrama has operated in a mode of spartan neorealism, unfurling the decidedly non-mu…
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• newWatch Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn absolutely rip it up in this week's House Show

  

  Yesterday, banjo icons Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn took over our Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube pages to perform an intimate, soulful, and surprisingly funny set as part of our series AVC Sessions: House Shows. During the show—which you can…
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The Guardian: Books + Reviews

• newKokomo by Victoria Hannan review – anticipated debut lives up to the hype
  Centred on the relationship of a mother and daughter, the shifting perspectives turn the story on its head, building fully-formed characters that will stay with youVictoria Hannan’s Kokomo is one of the most highly anticipated debuts of the year, a…
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• newMeanwhile in Dopamine City by DBC Pierre review – the evils of the internet
  Characters are tethered to a virtual world of surveillance and misinformation in an exhausting satire on technology This novel starts off annoying in one way, becomes annoying in a whole other way, and ends up as probably the most annoying book of 20…
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• newTime of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review – philosophy's great decade?
  The story, told with free-wheeling gusto, of four German thinkers – Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein – before the dark decade of the 1930sWolfram Eilenberger’s new book offers us a group portrait of four…
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• Charlotte Holmes: Adventure Box review – whodunnit for kids is a treat
  
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• Sisters by Daisy Johnson review – too close for comfort
  The darkly riveting relationship between teenage siblings is explored in a gothic tale from the Booker-shortlisted authorJuly and September are the teenage sisters of this eerie, absorbing novel; they are as near to twins as two girls born 10 months…
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• Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett review – the new doom boom
  A study of bunker sites and the people preparing for the worst couldn’t be better timed When we refer to someone as having a “bunker mentality” we usually mean they are so stuck in their ways that they’re unable to look around and see the wor…
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• Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun review – sketchy portrait of the artist
  A journalist’s attempt to reconstruct the life of the Parisian artist and muse through an old address book glitters but lacks real curiosityBrigitte Benkemoun, a high-achieving French journalist, gets her story off to an intriguing start. She expla…
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• Hidden Hand review – China's true global ambitions exposed
  Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg’s startling book about how the Chinese Communist party has spread its tentacles throughout the world is vital readingThis is a remarkable book with a chilling message. The Chinese Communist party, for which domina…
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• Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand – Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
  The scampish prince and his duchess definitely have a story to tell, but it is not the story in this bookPrince Harry – HRH as was – has long had to endure cruel snarks about, among other things, his paternity, yet in Finding Freedom, he confirms…
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• The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon review – vibrant comic classic
  Sam Selvon’s 1965 novel about a group of West Indian friends attempting to buy a house together in London is perfectly observedBritish landlords who put signs in windows in the 1950s and 60s warning “No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs” did West India…
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The Independent: Books

USA Today: Books

• newMichael Cohen previews tell-all Trump book, alleges Russia collusion, other sordid scandals

  

  Michael Cohen has released the foreword of his tell-all memoir about Donald Trump, in which he alleges Russia collusion and other sordid scandals.       
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• newStephenie Meyer says more books coming in 'Twilight' saga as 'Midnight Sun' sells 1M copies

  

  Author Stephenie Meyer's latest hit 'Midnight Sun' takes on the original 'Twilight' story from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen.       
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• 'Finding Freedom' tells Harry and Meghan's reasons for flight: 'Blindsided' by racism, tabloid coverage

  

  Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex say they did not cooperate in the book about them, "Finding Freedom." But it reads as if they did.       
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• 5 books not to miss: Diane Cook's 'The New Wilderness,' thriller 'Then She Vanished'

  

  Diane Cook's "The New Wilderness" is a gripping and important debut, while T. Jefferson Parker thrills with "Then She Vanished."       
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• 'The New Wilderness': Humanity returns to nature in Diane Cook's timely ecological tale

  

  A gripping adventure that denies its readers easy answers, "The New Wilderness" is an important debut, and an illuminating read in these times.       
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• 'Lobizona' review: Fantastical young-adult novel tackles themes of undocumented immigration

  

  Romina Garber's "Lobizona" doesn't pull punches highlighting the plight of many undocumented immigrants in the United States.       
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• Ashton Kutcher will try to soothe coronavirus pandemic anxiety with a virtual story time

  

  Ashton Kutcher is set to participate in COVID Recovery Iowa's "Tell Me a Story" virtual story time. Here's how and when to watch.       
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• 25 most popular debut novels since the start of COVID-19, per Goodreads

  

  With the pandemic keeping debut authors from promoting their work, Goodreads culled the top 25 novels that have members buzzing.       
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• Oprah Winfrey discusses racism, Sandra Bland with Ibram X. Kendi: 'That could have been me'

  

  In the latest episode of "The Oprah Conversation," host Oprah Winfrey brought on Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the book "How to Be an Antiracist."       
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• 'Life of a Klansman' review: Edward Ball confronts the bad (racist) apples in his Family Tree

  

  In his latest book, "Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy," Edward Ball delves into his family's racist Southern past.       
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WSJ: Books

• newThe Rise of Kamala Harris
  The daughter of East Bay professors grew up to become an excellent performer of politics.
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• newThe Post Office's Problem Isn't Trump
  Democrats cry sabotage. But mail volume is way down, and the USPS is losing billions of dollars.
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• newJustice Goes to Yale
  The university is told it is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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• newTrump's Mideast Breakthrough
  The Israel-UAE accord discredits Obama’s regional vision.
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• newHow Charter Schools Train Teachers
  Lower barriers to entry encourage newcomers, who then get a license.
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• newThe Treatment That Could Crush Covid
  Early trials show signaling cells eliminate the virus, calm the immune response and repair tissue damage.
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• newAmerica's Surprising Recovery After V-J Day
  Keynesians expected 15% unemployment in 1946. The actual figure was 3.9%
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• newKamala Harris's First Campaign
  A few months ago, Democrats scorned her for her botched presidential run.
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• newI Beat Addiction Without God
  Twelve-step programs say you can’t recover without the help of a higher power.
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• newNotable & Quotable: A Pence Endorsement
  ‘He reminds us of Calvin Coolidge, a modest vice president who went on to a successful presidency.’
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