Haruki Murakami is not pleased with the way the Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, is handling the pandemic, the AP reports. This Sunday, on Murakami’s monthly radio show, he criticized Suga’s optimistic rhetoric around the pandemic. Just before the Tokyo Read more >
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Peter Heller’s The Guide, Deborah Levy’s Real Estate, and Kat Chow’s Seeing Ghosts all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Read more >
Exciting news for the research-inclined: Yale University has launched a new digital collections platform, where users can view all digitized collections material from Yale’s Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. Over time, other Yale Library digital collections will be moved Read more >
Today, August 27, marks the release of singer-songwriter Halsey’s fourth studio album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. I’m not a Halsey superfan, but I do like some of their singles and they’ve had some interesting visuals. (Halsey Read more >
As you may know, Amazon is spending somewhere around a billion American dollars to create a series set in the the Second Age of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The Third Age is when The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy Read more >
This morning, in a press release, Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson announced the launch of McNally Editions, a new paperback reprint series “devoted to hidden gems.” “As any bookseller knows, recommending books is the most rewarding part of our job—especially Read more >
Did you know? Today, August 26, is National Dog Day! The day celebrates all our canine friends, from large to small, Westminster Kennel Club stars to beloved rescue pups. The holiday was originally founded in 2004 by Collen Paige, who Read more >
It’s always nice when they nail the lead. Apple TV+ today confirmed that not only has The Changeling—a fantastical urban horror drama based on Victor LaValle’s best-selling 2017 book of the same name—been given a series order, but that LaKeith Read more >
Here’s some good news for liars, scoundrels and chaos-sowers: accessory company MOSISO has designed a laptop case that resembles a vintage, leather-bound book. At only $26.99, this is a perfect product for the KOKOPELLIS and ANANSIS of the world who Read more >
If you like stories but find musicals irritating and books long, you might enjoy Arm Joe, an indie Street Fighter-style game based on Les Miserables. Arm Joe is a homophonic translation of the phrase “Ah, mujou!”, a phrase recognizing the Read more >
Sally Rooney has pulled a Lorde: after releasing two smash hits, she’s retreated from city life. According to Vogue, Rooney has moved back to rural west Ireland, near the quiet town where she grew up; she spends weekdays working and Read more >
54 years after her death, legendary author and wit Dorothy Parker’s cremated remains have finally been transported from Baltimore, where she was initially buried, to New York City, her primary home—and her tombstone has a new inscription. Parker was never Read more >
NFTs: they’re beloved by independent writers; credit card companies; and Nelson Mandela’s grandson. Now, Marvel’s getting in on the action: they’re launching the inaugural series of classic Marvel Comics as NFTs. Essentially, these Marvel Comic NFTs are digital collectibles; as Read more >
Jean Rhys, my favorite Ice Queen and author of Voyage in the Dark, Good Morning Midnight, and Wide Sargasso Sea, would have turned 131 today. Rhys’ explorations of sex, desire, migration, and alienation were as haunting to me at 18, Read more >
I’m sure this will come as no surprise to you, dear reader, but here it is: even some of the best, most well-regarded male writers are embarrassingly clueless when it comes to writing about women. Need actual proof? Check out Read more >
You know what they say: new books are just as good (if not better) than new friends. Okay, maybe they don’t say that. Maybe I made that up. Maybe my dog and I are feeling a little stir crazy, and Read more >
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