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Brodesser-Akner, who’s better known for her profiles of celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Paula Deen, says she wrote the book “mostly while I was waiting for an interview subject to show up.”
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel builds on the roots of her empathetic celebrity profiles.
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How Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre ballet spotlights Jane’s love affair with herself.
Stephenson’s latest is a luxuriously expansive thought experiment — until the end.
Taming our impulse to experience everything could make us happier, says the author of The Joy of Missing Out.
A New York Times report finds publishers are giving more money to Amazon to protect themselves from plagiarists.
What’s for dinner in a hotter, drier, more crowded world?
In Ella Risbridger’s debut book, the prose is as delicious as the food.
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It’s a love letter to female friendships and to New York City.
Ewan McGregor is a grown-up Danny Torrance, revisiting the Overlook Hotel and the demons of his past.
New York showgirls and murderous smart homes: your summer reading, chosen by Goodreads.
The stories detailed in a new book happened many years ago. But they say a lot about homophobia today.
“We thought we’d nailed the story. And we thought he would stop hurting young women. And it continues for 19 years after that.”
“I think I needed those feelings again. And I wanted to offer that feeling again to my readers.”
Cinderella has endured for hundreds of years. That’s because it gives us a way to talk about families.
Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re increasingly realizing they’re full of errors.
“It was definitely overwhelming and surprising.”
Belief in aliens is like faith in religion — and may come to replace it.
At BookCon, Rainbow Rowell talked headcanons, Wayward Son, and the joys of Baz Pitch.
At BookCon, the Ann M. Martin-led Baby-Sitters Club panel was a nostalgic celebration.
A new book explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals.
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Fans of Good Omens will rejoice at the loving faithfulness of this adaptation. For the rest of you, it may lag a bit.
A veteran philanthropy consultant defends the field.
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Two new classic book series showcase forgotten books by marginalized authors.
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This anthology reads exactly like a Karen Russell book. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing.
Want to fix the criminal justice system? Start with overzealous prosecutors.
A Bolivian Mennonite community was terrorized by a string of rapes. This new novel asks what comes next.
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Cute robots, time portals, and digital memories mingle in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation.
Shapiro blames our woes on our retreat from Judeo-Christian principles. But history presents a more complicated picture.
Our emotions today are radically different from what 19th-century Americans felt. That’s partly due to technology.