Gift Lists
These lists pop up every once in a while, and are fun for about two minutes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a list of twelve “standout books” for the fall.
These lists pop up every once in a while, and are fun for about two minutes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a list of twelve “standout books” for the fall.
Time‘s Andrew Arnold has a rundown of the best graphic novels of the last quarter century, with the usual suspects making the cut. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis was included too. Haven’t read it yet? What are you waiting for? Also, Time readers respond with their thoughts on the list.
Sara Parestky writes about the genesis of her new novel, Blacklist.
[B]y a year ago, when I was working on my novel Blacklist, I was definitely scared. That was when news stories emerged about police seizing a man in a New Jersey library for reading foreign language pages on the Web. They held him for three days without charging him, without letting him call his wife or a lawyer, before deciding that he wasn
Hari Kunzru has turned down the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize because it was co-sponsored by the Mail on Sunday, because he disapproves of the newspaper’s handling of news items relating to refugees and asylum-seekers.
A major Tintin exhibit, put together by a lifelong fan, will soon leave France for London. The museum’s curator gives the maritime details in the Herge classic high marks for verisimilitude. No word, though, on Herge’s portrayal of colonized people.
on cutesy names like “momoirs.” Here’s an article on what Generation-X can teach us about parenting, which is to say, not much that you couldn’t figure out on your own.