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10 summer books from LA authors and independent Southern California presses
Los Angeles Daily News· 2 days agoHitting bookshop shelves this summer are clandestine tales of wife-swapping gone awry, a Korean...
Letters: Labour’s evasiveness on tax bodes ill for hard-pressed households
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoIt has promised not to raise income tax, national insurance and VAT, but has never been able to...
The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka
New York Times· 7 days agoOn TikTok, a collection of objects sits atop a stack of books: a string of pearls, a Diptyque candle, a Sylvanian Families rabbit figurine in a scallop-collared dress. The video’s< ...
8 Famous People Who Changed Their Names For Hollywood, And 8 Who Absolutely Refused To
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 7 days ago"If you can pronounce 'Saoirse,' as in Saoirse Ronan, if you can make the effort to learn a...
Six things you need to know about Troy Redfern
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThey write in a more methodical way. I’m the opposite of that. For me it’s more like switching off the analytical part of your brain and letting ideas...
'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library
BBC News· 5 days agoIf the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places. In this town, a...
Review | Paying tribute to the writer who got us all saying ‘Kafkaesque’
Washington Post· 22 hours agoFranz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40. Just think of the first sentence of “The Trial”:...
Reading “The Trial” 100 Years After Kafka’s Death
Princeton Town Topics· 3 days agoAccording to one of Kafka’s biographers, Frederick R. Karl, in a 1991 interview, “Kafkaesque” is “when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your ...
Ukraine war: a wave of books to give traumatised children hope
The Conversation· 2 days agoSince the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, Ukrainian publishers have prioritised the production of trauma-informed books to help children and teenagers cope with living ...
The Man on the Train
Book Reporter· 6 days agoDebbie Babitt follows up SAVING GRACE and FIRST VICTIM with another engaging psychological thriller. At the start of THE MAN ON THE TRAIN, a body is being pulled from the ocean. In present day ...