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While growing up on Mercer Island, Washington, Caroline Fraser was careful to hide many of her emerging viewpoints from her strict Christian Scientist parents, especially her angry, abusive father, whom she despised. As she devoured Reader’s Digest’s heart-stopping Drama in Real Life stories, she realized that she liked ones “about bad things happening to other
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center Turns 100 Happy 100th to NYPL’s Schomburg Center! The Schomburg holds “one
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Jennifer Dulos’ 2019 murder made national news, featuring in more than a dozen stories in the New York Times alone. The mother of five, who lived in a wealthy Connecticut enclave, disappeared one morning in May after taking her children to school. Although her body was not found, copious amounts of blood in her home
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Lawsuit Returns Banned Books to This School District’s Shelves The St. Francis school district is returning banned books
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Observing the year through its smallest increments allows readers to slow down and appreciate nature in a mindful, rewarding way. It’s not a new way, either: Microseasons: A Slow-Living Guide to the Year Following the Traditional Japanese Calendar is based on the traditional 72 Japanese microseasons, which each last five or six days. The Japanese
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. TIME’s Best Books of the Year So Far TIME published their list of the Best Books of the
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Readers who were enchanted by author-illustrator Claire Lebourg’s A Day with Mousse will be delighted to know their favorite striped creature with an affinity for little red socks has returned in the utterly charming Have a Good Trip, Mousse!, translated from French by Sophie Lewis. Mousse is as quirky and intriguing as ever: He’s an
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2024 Nebula Awards Winners The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced the winners of the
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City Summer, Country Summer is an exquisite, beautiful picture book that tells a complex story about Black boys from different backgrounds sharing a summer together. In Forest, Mississippi, two boys visit their Grandmama. Next door, a boy from New York has travelled to visit his Mama Lara. As author Kiese Laymon writes, “Every weekday summer
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Today in Books gathers a bunch of news from around the internet, but we cover some stories ourselves. Here’s what we were tracking this week. Amid the court battle over the future of the IMLS, Trump issued a budget proposal for 2026 that would make any of the legal decisions moot: the IMLS would simply
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On June 19th, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued orders to free the state’s entire enslaved population—two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had gone into effect. Juneteenth, a portmanteau of that date, honors what is often seen as America’s second Independence Day, and was recognized as a federal
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It’s hard to fathom just how devastated London was in the 1940s and early ’50s by the physical and psychic impact of World War II. As late as 1953, Britons still were required to use food rationing coupons. But there were some distractions: In June of that year, Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation brought pageantry and
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