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Fifteen Books For a Spectacular September

August 31, 2026August 31, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ayad Akhtar, book recommendations, books, China Miéville, Chloe Benjamin, Chris Bennett, Del Rey, Emily St. John Mandel, Fantasy, fiction, Forge Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Hank Phillippi Ryan, HarperOne, history, Jack Stewart, James Islington, Jared Diamond, Ken Liu, Knopf, literary fiction, Lucy Worsley, Marlon James, most anticipated books, new books, new releases, Nonfiction, Pegasus Books, reading, Riverhead Books, Saga Press, science fiction, September books, Summit Books, Thrillers, Tom Clancy, W.W. Norton

From Emily St. John Mandel to Chloe Benjamin; Ayad Akhtar to Marlon Benjamin; Tom Clancy to Jared Diamond

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How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Burned Down ‘The Welcome Table’

August 6, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments activism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migration, climate refugees, Copernicus, documentary, environment, Europe, France, Gasland, global warming, Greece, HBO, HBO Max, Indigenous communities, Josh Fox, Max, movie review, New Orleans, Nonfiction, Spain, sustainability, The Welcome Table, wildfires

Following climate refugees is one way of showing how climate change is having disastrous effects

August Books for the End of Summer

August 4, 2026August 3, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ashley Kahn, August 2026 books, book recommendations, books, books to read, Bookshop.org, Casey Michel, Chang-rae Lee, Claire Stapleton, Fantasy, fiction, Graceland, Jill LePore, Kim Bo-Young, Laura Moriarty, Liane Moriarty, Lisa Gardner, literary fiction, new books, Nonfiction, Olivie Blake, Paul Simon, Richard Swan, Roland Orzabal, science fiction, T Kingfisher, Tears for Fears, Thao Thai, Thrillers

A stuffed drawer of top reads from Chang-rae Lee to Paul Simon, from Google to Tears for Fears

Slavoj Žižek Can’t Name the Monster Anymore

July 13, 2026July 12, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 4 Comments algorithmic politics, algorithms, attention economy, authoritarianism, Bloomsbury, Book Review, contemporary politics, critical theory, Donald Trump, dopamine politics, Elysium, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgia Meloni, Hegel, Hollywood, Jacques Lacan, Javier Milei, Jean Baudrillard, Liberal Fascisms, liberalism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Narendra Modi, Nayib Bukele, Nonfiction, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, populism, Slavoj Žižek, social media, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, The Matrix

‘Liberal Fascisms’ is the latest of the viral Slovenian philosophers collected essays

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The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, anti-vaxxers, Book and Film Globe, Book Review, CIA, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, Deep State, disinformation, fake news, Franz Neumann, Girolamo Savonarola, Great Replacement, Hannah Arendt, history, Intellectual History, John F. Kennedy assassination, Joseph McCarthy, Karl Popper, Marxism, Maurice Joly, misinformation, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nonfiction, OSS, philosophy, Pizzagate, political history, politics, Princeton University Press, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, psychology, QAnon, Richard Hofstadter, Stop the Steal, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, The Prince, Watergate

In his ‘Hidden History’ Andrew McKenzie-McHarg goes back to Machiavelli and wide to ‘Yankees and Cowboys’

A Reader’s Dozen for July

June 30, 2026June 30, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Amy Bruni, Ben Reeves, Ben Wikler, book recommendations, Bookshop.org, Colson Whitehead, cookbooks, Crown, Daniel Silva, Dino Martins, Doubleday, Emily Giffin, fiction, Harper, history, July 2026 books, July book releases, Knopf, language, Lauren Collins, literary fiction, memoirs, Michael Cunningham, nature, new books, Nonfiction, Pamela Colloff, Penguin Press, politics, Publishing, Random House, Riverhead Books, science, short stories, Sigrid Nunez, Simon and Schuster, Sophia Smith Galer, summer reading, Thrillers, true crime, W.W. Norton

From parasites to romance, Harlem history to thrillers, hot reads are on their way for summer

Kory Stamper shows us her ‘True Color’

March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments art and color, Book Review, books, chemistry, color perception, color science, color standards, color terminology, color theory, COMIC computer, cultural history, DuPont, dye industry, history of science, Irwin Priest, Kory Stamper, language, lexicography, Margaret Godlove, Munsell color system, Nonfiction, Penguin Random House, Publishing, science writing, True Color, Webster’s Dictionary, Women’s History Month

A secret history of the spectrum includes accounts of its words, its heroes, and its battles

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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Eighteen January 2026 Book Releases You Need to Know About

January 5, 2026January 11, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Alastair Reynolds, Ashley Winstead, Belle Boggs, Book Lists, Campus Novels, Cathy Hirano, Celebrity Authors, Chuck Klosterman, Colleen Hoover, Deepa Anappara, Fantasy, George Saunders, January Books 2026, Jennette McCurdy, Julian Barnes, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Laura Dave, Lee C Bollinger, literary fiction, Martin Aitken, Melissa Faliveno, Nahoko Uehashi, Nina McConigley, Nonfiction, Rebecca Hannigan, Sara Levine, science fiction, Sylvester Allen, T Kingfisher, Thrillers

Jennette McCurdy, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Laura Dave, Chuck Klosterman, Lee Bollinger and more!

How Great Minds Retreat From the World

December 31, 2025January 2, 2026 Samuel Porteous 2 Comments Book Review, Christian Mysticism, Creative Process, David Jones, Guy Stagg, Intellectual History, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Monasticism, Nonfiction, philosophy, Retreat, Simone Weil, Solitude, Spirituality, The World Within

Guy Stagg retraces the paths of Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Jones, and Simone Weil to explore solitude as a crucible for creative renewal