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    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Nov. 2nd to Nov. 8th

    By Kiki Nicole  November 2, 2020
    Awards

    The 2020 Albertine Prize shortlist features stories of visceral excess and identity-seeking.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 30, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 30, 2020
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    Read Percy Shelley’s review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

    By Book Marks  October 30, 2020
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    Are bookstores essential businesses? In France, they’re making the case.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy is getting the perfect audiobook narrator.

    By Emily Temple  October 29, 2020
    Archives

    Arthur Miller’s impressive personal library is going to the New York Public Library.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 28, 2020
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    Wole Soyinka is publishing his first novel in five decades.

    By Corinne Segal  October 27, 2020
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    The new cover of Bazaar Art is based on a Margaret Atwood poem.

    By Emily Temple  October 27, 2020
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    Here’s the longlist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 26, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 26th to Nov. 1st

    By Kiki Nicole  October 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Ever-Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Book Publishing

    By New Books Network  October 23, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Angela Chen, Athena Dixon, and Melissa Faliveno

    By The Antibody Reading Series  October 22, 2020
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    Facebook’s former in-house psychiatrist is writing a book about online dating.

    By Corinne Segal  October 22, 2020
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    You can now read the only surviving full draft of a Jane Austen novel, in her very own handwriting.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 22, 2020
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    Anna Burns has won the International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 22, 2020
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    Of course Clea DuVall will direct a show based on Tegan and Sara’s memoir.

    By Corinne Segal  October 21, 2020
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    A letter from a poor Edgar Allan Poe sold for $125,000.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 20, 2020
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    14 new books to treat yourself to.

    By Katie Yee  October 20, 2020
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    The first look at Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    By Jonny Diamond  October 19, 2020
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    Here are the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winners.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 19, 2020
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, Oct. 19th to 25th

    By Kiki Nicole  October 19, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  October 16, 2020
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

    By Rasheeda Saka  October 15, 2020
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