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For Whom Is America the ‘Chosen Land’?

April 22, 2026April 22, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments America, American Christianity, American history, Billy Graham, Black church history, Book Review, Catholicism in America, Chosen Land, Christ, Christian nationalism, Christian right, church and state, Deism, evangelicalism, Founding Fathers, George Whitefield, Jesus, liberation theology, mainline Protestantism, Matthew Sutton, nonfiction books, political religion, Protestantism in America, religion and politics, religious pluralism, separation of church and state, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Supreme Court

Matthew Sutton looks at the Christian roots and legacy of the United States project

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Noir and Forgotten History Unite in ‘Death to Pachuco’

April 17, 2026April 15, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments civil rights history, comic book review, crime comics, Death to Pachuco, graphic novel, Henry Barajas, historical comics, Image Comics, indie comics, Latino representation, los angeles history, Mexican American history, noir comics, Pachuco culture, Rachel Merrill, racism in America, Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial, Spanglish dialogue, World War II home front, Zoot Suit Riots

Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill tell a wartime story of Mexicans in Los Angeles

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‘The Testaments’ Brings Us Back to Gilead

April 15, 2026April 15, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments book adaptation, Bruce Miller, Chase McKenzie, dystopian fiction, Elisabeth Moss, feminist dystopia, Gilead, Hulu, Lucy Halliday, Margaret Atwood, Mayday, political drama, prestige TV, series sequel, streaming TV, Television Review, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, TV criticism

In the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller take us to finishing school

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In ‘Cinematic Immunity,’ Film Crews Get the Final Edit

April 14, 2026April 17, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments behind the scenes filmmaking, Cinematic Immunity, cinematography stories, Cruising film, film crew interviews, film crews, film industry culture, film production, film set anecdotes, Gillian G Gaar, Hollywood labor, Hollywood vs New York, independent filmmaking history, Michael Lee Nirenberg, movie production history, New York filmmaking, oral history books, Saturday Night Fever, The Godfather, The Sopranos, union film crews

A new history of filmmaking brings stories of the sets

From Village to Myth: Moscow’s Thousand-Year Story

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments Book Review, Eastern Europe, Golden Horde, Lenin, Mongols, Moscow, Napoleon, Peter the Great, political systems, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian history, Simon Morrison, Soviet Union, Stalin, Tatars, totalitarianism, Zaryadye

Simon Morrison’s sweeping history traces the rise of one of the world’s great cities

2 Chainz New Autobiography? It’s a Vibe

April 12, 2026April 11, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments 2 Chainz, 2026 books, AAVE in literature, Atlanta rap, Atria Books, Black Privilege Publishing, Book Review, celebrity memoirs, Derrick Harriell, hip-hop memoir, music industry books, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, rap biography, rapper autobiographies, Sean Diddy Combs, spirituality in hip-hop, The Voice in My Head Is God

‘The Voice in My Head Is God’ is both a mess and a window into his mind

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In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice

April 7, 2026April 10, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments American literature, autofiction, Ben Lerner, book reviews 2026, books about identity, books about language, contemporary fiction, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Jewish writers, literary fiction, new literary releases, novels about family, parent child relationships, psychological fiction, Transcription A Novel

Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but

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A ‘Giant’ Arrives on Broadway

April 5, 2026April 8, 2026 Michael Washburn 1 Comment 1983 setting, American vs British Jews, Antisemitism, author controversy, Aya Cash, book publishing crisis, Booker Prize history, British theatre, class dynamics Britain, Farrar Straus, freedom of speech vs responsibility, Giant play, Great Missenden, Holocaust survivor narrative, Israel criticism, Israel Lebanon conflict, Jessie Stone character, jewish identity, John Lithgow, Lebanon War 1982, Literary adaptation, Mark Rosenblatt, Middle East politics, PR crisis, public backlash, publishing industry, Roald Dahl, The Witches, Tom Maschler

A new play about the Roald Dahl scandal lands stateside after sold-out West End run

April Showers You With Great Books!

March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ada Limon, Ada Limon poetry, Against Breaking, Ally Condie, April 2026 book releases, April 2026 books, Ben Lerner, Ben Lerner novel, Beverly Gage, Beverly Gage history, biography, Book and Film Globe, Burn the Haystack, Chanda Prescod Weinstein science, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Doubleday, Dutton, Farrar Straus and Giroux, George Orwell biography, George Orwell Life and Legacy, Go Gentle, Grand Central Publishing, HarperOne, history, Jennie Young, Judy Batalion, Judy Batalion novel, literary fiction, London Falling, Maria Semple, Maria Semple novel, new books April 2026, Nonfiction, Oxford University Press, Pantheon, Patrick Radden Keefe, Patrick Radden Keefe nonfiction, Poetry, politics, Putnam, Robert Colls, S L Huang, science fiction, Scribner, Simon and Schuster, spring books 2026, The Edge of Space-Time, The Girls Trip, The Language of Liars, The Last Woman of Warsaw, This Land Is Your Land, thriller, Tor Books, Transcription

Here are 11 new releases for spring

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Paul Theroux Is ‘Crazy for You’ in Graphic Detail

March 23, 2026March 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments art destruction, art satire, bangkok, banksy, Book Review, boomer literature, comic books, comics criticism, contemporary fiction, crazy for you, cultural critique, Fantagraphics, graphic novel, graphic storytelling, illustration, literary fiction, minor watt, orientalism, Paul Theroux, postmodern art, roy lichtenstein, sex tourism, short story adaptation, siamese nights, steve lafl er, thailand, travel writing, western writers

Steve Lafler’s art dramatically alters the presentation of the story

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Sanderson Fandom in Turmoil as Iconic Soundtrack Faces Takedown

March 20, 2026March 23, 2026 J. Barnes 3 Comments Apple TV Plus, black piper, book soundtrack, Brandon Sanderson, cosmere, dragonsteel, fan backlash, fandom culture, fantasy adaptations, film adaptation, genre fandom, intellectual property, kaladin soundtrack, michael bahnmiller, Mistborn, music rights, shallans lullaby, spotify streaming, stormlight archive, stormlight archive adaptation, streaming rights, the way of kings, tv adaptation

After Apple bought the rights to The Stormlight Archive, lawyers have threatened a beloved fan ‘book soundtrack’

The Making of ‘Forrest Gump’

March 18, 2026March 17, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1990s Cinema, Academy Awards, boomer nostalgia, columbia pictures, eric roth, Forrest Gump, michael conner humphreys, on the set of forrest gump, oscars 1994, Paramount Pictures, philadelphia film, Pulp Fiction, Robert Zemeckis, Sally Field, steve starkey, Tom Hanks, university press of kentucky, Warner Bros., winston groom

Steve Starkey’s production story is a nostalgia tale within a nostalgia tale

A Devotion That Devours

March 17, 2026December 1, 2025 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments erotic fiction, Farrar Straus Giroux, Jewish themes, LGBTQ literature, literary fiction, My Lover the Rabbi, novel review, obsessive love, queer fiction, Rabbi character, Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum’s ‘My Lover, the Rabbi’ captures the agonizing beauty of obsessive love — and the man who can’t stop chasing it.

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Jack Kerouac on the Run

March 15, 2026March 18, 2026 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Grolier Club, Jack Kerouac, literary exhibitions, On The Road, William S. Burroughs

A new Grolier Club exhibition reveals unexpected sides of the Beat writer — an athlete and artist whose literary destiny was born from a freak accident.

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A Bakers Dozen New Book Releases for March 2026

March 4, 2026March 8, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Alice Martin Westward Women, Alicia Jo Rabins When Were Born We Forget Everything, Allison Pataki It Girl, anticipated books spring 2026, Atria Books fiction, Atria Books releases, Ballantine Books historical fiction, Berkley Books thriller, book preview March 2026, Christina Applegate You with the Sad Eyes, Del Rey fantasy, Elizabeth Arnott The Secret Lives of Murderers Wives, Grand Central Publishing books, Kiersten White The Fox and the Devil, Knopf nonfiction, Kory Stamper True Color, Little Brown and Company books, Macmillan books 2026, major book releases 2026, March 2026 book releases, March 2026 books, new literary fiction 2026, Penguin Random House books, Rachel Zoffness Tell Me Where It Hurts, Rebecca Serle Once and Again, Simon and Schuster releases, Soho Crime mysteries, St Martins Press books, Sujata Massey The Star from Calcutta, Women authors 2026, Women's History Month books

13 books for Womens History Month from Christina Applegate, Maggie Smith, Alicia Jo Rabins and more

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