How To Stay Sustainable With Producing Paper Books? Examining environmentally friendly book printing demonstrates the significant influence the publishing industry has on the environment. Offices consume a lot of paper—more…
The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
Dragons Love Tacos Summary Among all the picture books ever created, this is among my favorites! FOR WHAT ENDANG? It features tacos and cute, humorous dragons—not the menacing type. Nobody…
Almost as soon as it appeared, Covid-19 seeded a peculiar and deep dread of the literature it might someday inspire. “Novel coronavirus” — in the literary sense — already conjures…
Have you ever wondered how forks ended up with four tines, where to store off-season clothes when you live in a small space, or why there’s green felt on pool…
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Lauren Sandler’s new book, “This Is All I Got,” follows one year in the life of Camila, a young homeless mother…
If flu-pandemic books make cold sufferers anxious and zombie books make agoraphobics jittery, here’s something to rattle the Zyrtec set. You name an allergy, and adolescent Anaya in Kenneth Oppel’s BLOOM…
In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. “The Plague” is a…
Chapter 2 A shock when we reached the delta, with its braiding and shifting sandbars: unwelcome colonists had beached upon our shores. Before, when we’d come down to the ocean, the dunes…
Recent books of interest: BROWN ALBUM: Essays on Exile and Identity, by Porochista Khakpour. (Vintage, paper, $16.) In these essays, spanning more than a decade, the Iranian-American novelist and memoirist reflects…
Al-sha‘b Yurid Isqat al-nizam! The people Want The overthrow of the regime! These words, chanted rhythmically all over the Arabic-speaking world beginning in January 2011, promised a transformation in the history of the Middle East. For…
Chapter 1The Quick Death Astrid Strick had never liked Barbara Baker, not for a single day of their forty‑year acquaintance, but when Barbara was hit and killed by the empty, speeding…
