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For many readers, Robert Frost looms large as the American poet who captured the rhythms of New England life and the patterns of nature in poems like “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Celebrated for capturing ordinary speech in his poetry, Frost incorporated influences such as Shakespeare and Percy
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Christopher Nolan is adapting Homer’s The Odyssey to the big screen, and it promises a star-studded cast. Zendaya, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, and Elliot Page are all attached, and we’ve just gotten our first
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Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel’s powerful debut, focuses on eight teenage boxers—all women—who are contending for a title at Bob’s Boxing Palace in Reno, Nevada. Bullwinkel skillfully shifts points of view throughout this dramatic, often funny novel, developing a unique identity and personal history for each fighter, as she recounts their boxing bouts in wonderful detail. Against
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Here are the stories Today in Books readers were most interested in this week. Settle into your Sunday and catch up! Thomson Reuters Wins AI Copyright Suit In what has the potential to be a landmark decision, Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the U.S. The media and technology holding company filed
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A refreshing take on the increasingly popular cookbook-memoir subgenre, My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: Half Recipes, Half Stories, All Latin American by Kiera Wright-Ruiz is a soul-searching journey that uses food as a navigating force. The daughter of an Ecuadorian man and Korean woman, Wright-Ruiz has dealt with the anxiety-provoking question “What are you?” her entire
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Welcome to Today in Books. In this weekend edition, a look at all the news Book Riot covered this week. To Defend Religious Freedom, We Need to Fight Book Bans Meet This Year’s Slate of Summer Scares Selections for Adults, Teens, and Tweens The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week The New York Public
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On Memorial Day weekend in 2019, Geraldine Brooks received a life-changing phone call from a brusque hospital resident. Her husband of more than three decades, the writer Tony Horwitz, had died suddenly while on his book tour. In Memorial Days, Brooks describes the confusing and difficult weeks that followed: the rush from her home on
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. In honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s all romance, all the time in today’s edition. The Most Binge-Worthy Valentine’s Day Romances [Oprah Daily] 11 New Romance Books and Classic Movie Pairings [People] Valentine’s Day Date Ideas
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Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, is something rare: a jewel-like, introspective novel in which not all that much happens, yet worlds are revealed. Set in a sparsely populated abbey in rural Australia, the story unfolds through the diary-like ruminations of an unnamed woman who has come seeking spiritual retreat
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Book Deals The best book deals of the day, curated by Book Riot. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals Read original article here.
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The multi-award winning feminist author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) has announced that she will be releasing her long-awaited memoir later this year. The 85-year-old Canadian writer’s ouvré includes everything from 17 novels to 19 poetry books and a few graphic novels, but this is her first memoir. Part of the reason she hadn’t written
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★ Yin Yang Love Song Lauren Kung Jessen offers a thoughtful and unique contemporary romance with Yin Yang Love Song. Set on Washington’s Whidbey Island, the book centers on Chrysanthemum Hua Williams, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and a self-proclaimed “heartbreak herbalist.” After meeting Vin and Leo Chao, a pair of famous rock
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Book Deals The best book deals of the day, curated by Book Riot. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today’s Featured Book Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Book Deals Previous Daily Deals Read original article here.
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I’ve waited my entire career to publish a speculative fiction novel. My favorite genres are science fiction and fantasy. However, when I say this, most people think I’m talking about spaceships and dragons, which I don’t love. What I mean is that I love the idea of science fiction and fantasy based on my own
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Rehab Demon Copperhead Built Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead depicted the catastrophic impacts of
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