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February 18, 2026

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Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The American Way of Killing’ to be released in September

February 14, 2026 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — “The Tipping Point” author Malcolm Gladwell’s next book will focus on a long-running tragedy in the country’s culture, gun violence. “The American Way of Killing” will come out Sept. 29, Little, Brown […]

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Min Jin Lee’s ‘Pachinko’ follow-up, ‘American Hagwon,’ will explore Korean education obsession

January 24, 2026 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK— Min Jin Lee’s first novel since her million-selling “Pachinko” is a long book that grew out of a basic question: What do Koreans care most about? “We’re obsessed with education, and it became […]

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Laura Dave’s sequel to ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ reveals all

January 17, 2026 Alicia Rancilio

Those who read “The Last Thing He Told Me” and wondered what happens next for the characters will get their wish. Writer Laura Dave has penned its sequel called “The First Time I Saw Him,” […]

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5 notable books by author Sophie Kinsella, who died at age 55

December 20, 2025 Hillel Italie

Sophie Kinsella, who has died at age 55, had a special talent for characters who persevered through the most embarrassing mishaps — often of their own making. Here are five novels that helped keep readers […]

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Novelist Rabih Alameddine, poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards

November 29, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide last Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The […]

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National Book Foundation announced finalists

October 18, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award. Last Tuesday, the National […]

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Book Review: Evidence of historian David McCullough’s curiosity abounds in ‘History Matters’

September 20, 2025 Andrew DeMillo

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told an audience in 2012 that writing history was like working on a detective case. “And once on the case, you want to know more and more and […]

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Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement in pirated books case over AI training

September 20, 2025 Michael Liedtke and Matt O Brien

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge last Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising […]

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Book Review: A fingerprint expert obsessed with learning her missing sister’s fate

July 12, 2025 Bruce DeSilva

Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister, Thea, slipped out of their family home in rural Maine to party with friends and never came home. Shaw (short for Shawnee), now a fingerprint expert […]

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Book Review: Donal Ryan’s spellbinding sequel in 21 voices continues saga of small Irish town

June 7, 2025 Ann Levin

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter, […]

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