Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Pg. 99: Michael Sierra-Arévalo's "The Danger Imperative"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing by Michael Sierra-Arévalo . About the book,...

Third reading: D.W. Buffa on The World of Theodore H. White, Pt. 1

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D.W. Buffa 's latest novel is  Lunatic Carnival , the tenth legal thriller involving the defense attorney Joseph Antonelli. He has also ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Eight top dystopian novels that explore hope in the climate crisis

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Scott Guild received his MFA from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, and his PhD in English from the University ...

Pg. 99: David L. Weimer & Aidan R. Vining's "Dog Economics"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Dog Economics: Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships by David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining . About the b...

Q&A with Katherine Harbour

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From my Q&A with Katherine Harbour , author of The Dark Fable : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Fifteen of the best books with unreliable narrators

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At PopSugar Kaley Rohlinger tagged fifteen top books with unreliable narrators , including: Atonement by Ian McEwan The narrator of Ia...

Pg. 99: George Fisher's "Beware Euphoria"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs by George Fisher . About the...

Lisa Black's "The Deepest Kill," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Deepest Kill by Lisa Black . The entry begins: This story is, basically, the Laci Petersen murder if ...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Cover story: "The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War"

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Thomas Pert is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. His new book ...

Five top literary crime books featuring family dynamics

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Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times , White Review , Guard...

Pg. 99: Alexa Bankert's "When Politics Becomes Personal"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: When Politics Becomes Personal: The Effect of Partisan Identity on Anti-Democratic Behavior by Alexa Bankert ...

Q&A with Sara Ochs

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From my Q&A with Sara Ochs , author of The Resort : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? This...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Eight new books about sex, relationships and romance

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The Zoomer Book Club's Nathalie Atkinson tagged eight new books about sex, relationships and romance , including: REMEMBER LOVE by Cl...

Pg. 99: Jane Ohlmeyer's "Making Empire"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Jane Ohlmeyer . About the book, from the ...

Pg. 69: Brandy Schillace's "The Framed Women of Ardemore House"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Framed Women of Ardemore House : A Novel by Brandy Schillace . About the book, from the publisher: An ab...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Five of the best campus novels

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At the Guardian Kate McCusker tagged five top campus novels , including: On Beauty by Zadie Smith The title of Zadie Smith’s third no...

Pg. 99: Troy Tassier's "The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks by Troy Tassier . ...

What is Margot Livesey reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Margot Livesey , author of The Road from Belhaven . Her entry begins: I am reading The Blue Window by Suzanne B...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Seven top books about sex, love, and intimacy

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Annie Liontas is the genderqueer author of the novel Let Me Explain You and the coeditor of A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors . ...

Pg. 99: Andre Schmid's "North Korea’s Mundane Revolution"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965 by Andre Schmid . ...