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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “A Calamity of Souls” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 3. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 4. “The Familiar” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) ...
Complex stories of migration are among the finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction
LONDON (AP) — Two novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction. U.S.-French writer Aube Rey Lescure’s debut novel “River East, River West” depicts west to east immigration through the story of...
Has Salman Rushdie changed after his stabbing? Well, he feels about 25, the author tells AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two years after the knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same. Interviewed this week at the Manhattan offices of his longtime publisher, Random House, he is thinner, paler, scarred and blind in his right...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “The Familiar” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) 3. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 4. “Toxic Prey” by John Sanford (Putnam) 5....
Movie Review: 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' amps up a true-tale WWII heist
The latest Guy Ritchie flick “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified World War II tale with enough dead Nazis to make “Inglourious Basterds” blush. The result is a jauntily entertaining...
NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview
NEW YORK (AP) — National Public Radio has suspended a veteran editor who wrote an outside essay criticizing his employer for, in his view, journalism that reflects a liberal viewpoint with little tolerance for contrary opinions. Uri Berliner, a senior editor on NPR's business desk,...
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Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, narrated by Sean Pratt and the author (Penguin Audio) 3. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, narrated by the author...
Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit
NEW YORK (AP) — In Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last. “At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “Table for Two” by Amor Towles (Viking) 3. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 4. “Iron Flame” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 5....
Posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be published Oct. 22
NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published this fall. “Patriot,” which publisher Alfred A. Knopf is calling the late Russian opposition leader's “final letter to the world,” will come out Oct. 22. Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya,...
