slow burn In this new take on the Regency romance, Bridgerton meets Emily Henry, a wallflower who writes a dictionary of cheesy slang, who arranges her marriage to the ultimate coachman: the town rake. Can love be redefined? This lady and the rake are about to find out! Wallflowers, rakes, and everyone in between: new
Common Reads, sometimes called One Book, One College, or All Campus Reads, has been a popular project for American colleges and universities for the past decade. They invite incoming students to read the same book and spend the first week – or even the entire first year – talking about it. It’s a smart way
‘CContinental people live sexual lives; The British have hot water bottles.” Hungarian journalist George Mikes saw it in How to Be an Alien (1946), one of the finest examples of the tradition of foreigners explaining themselves to Britain. From Voltaire to VS Naipaul, outsiders have often highlighted national peculiarities, exposing contradictions inherent in British life
DAfter holding a star-studded wedding in Palermo earlier this month, Usa Lipa and Callum Turner are honeymooning in Italy. But their relationship started with a book: While meeting each other in an LA restaurant, the couple realized that not only were they reading the same novel – Trust by Hernán Diaz – but both had
Sometimes I think, “Ugh. There are so many books in the world, and I’ll never be able to get to them all.” And sometimes I think, “Wow. There are so many books in the world, and it’s fun to try to read as many as you can.” Today, I’m feeling the latter, which is why
We asked our newsroom colleagues to share the nonfiction titles they’ve enjoyed reading so far this year — here’s what they shared with us.
A Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the maddening experience of publishing her first book. She is using a pseudonym because one day she may change her mind; The notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not view complaining authors with favour. When Rebecca was proofreading her
Barnes & Noble announces fall’s most anticipated books, an IMAX release for Greta Gerwig’s NARNIA, and more. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Greatest Books of Fall, According to Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble has released its lists Most
Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. The protagonist in each novel is to some extent an Orwell surrogate doing the same things that Orwell did in the places where Orwell lived. Here, somewhat unconvincingly, the author’s representative is a repressed young woman, Dorothy Heyer, who loses her memory, identity, and faith. Orwell considered it “absurd”,
Going to the beach every year was one of my favorite parts of the summer when I was growing up. And it still is. Now that summer has officially started, it’s time to head to the beach. But if you can’t go to the beach, reading about the beach might be the next best thing.