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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
The Great Christmas Tree Race by Naomi Jones, illustrated by James Jones, Ladybird, £7.99Star always goes on top of the Christmas tree – until new decoration Sparkle kicks off a race. Who will win: Lights, Bauble, Snowflake or Reindeer?...
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Ghost Stories to Read On Christmas Eve
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Lyndsie Manusos’s fiction has appeared in PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute...
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Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?
In the decade leading up to the pandemic, nonfiction seemed unstoppable. Readers flocked to books that explained a world upended by Brexit, Trump, #MeToo and climate upheaval. Titles such as Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, Caroline Criado-Perez’s Invisible Women, and...
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The Most Anticipated Books In Translation of 2026
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Pierce Alquist is a transplanted New Yorker living and working in the publishing scene in Boston. Don’t worry if she fooled you, the...
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2025’s Best Cookbooks and Food Writing, BIPOC Edition
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Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer,...
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Is it time to redraw our maps?
In May, as part of his campaign to annex Canada, President Donald Trump called the border with his neighbour an artificial line that had been drawn with a ruler “right across the top of the country”. He suggested that...
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The Best Queer Books of 2025, According to All the Lists
As always, this is a flawed process. I’m just picking out the queer books I recognize, so I may have missed some. Let me know if I did! That being said, it appears that only three queer books made...
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The Tournament of Books Shortlist
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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.The Tournament of Books...
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The NEW YORK TIMES’ Best Under the Radar Books of 2025
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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.The New York Times‘...
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Read These Classics, Then Read These Black Queer Historical YA Retellings
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Jessica Pryde is a member of that rare breed that grew up in Washington, DC, but is happily enjoying the warmer weather of...
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